Introduction
The Paradox of Desire
Chapter 1
Paradise Lost: Hawthorne’s Traumatic Narcissism
Chapter 2
As His Mother Loved Him: “The Gentle Boy” and Freud’s Theory of Male Homosexuality
Chapter 3
Revising the Oedipal Hawthorne: Criticism and the Forms of Narcissism
Chapter 4
Struck by the Mask: Narcissism, Shame, Masculinity, and the Dread of the Visual
Chapter 5
In a Pig’s Eye: Masculinity, Mastery, and the Returned Gaze of The Blithedale Romance
Chapter 6
The Gaze in the Garden: Femininity, Fetishism, and Tradition in “Rappaccini’s Daughter”
Chapter 7
Visual Identity: Hawthorne, Melville, and Classical Male Beauty
Chapter 8
A Certain Dark Beauty: Narcissism, Form, and Race in Hawthorne’s Late Work
Epilogue
The Haunted Verge: Aesthetics, Desire, History