David Greven is Professor of English at the University of South Carolina and the author of The Fragility of Manhood: Hawthorne, Freud, and the Politics of Gender.
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Tracing lines of influence in texts while at the same time broadening perspectives on those texts, as Greven's book demonstrates, bears important fruit. This study, then, achieves what it advocates and renews the value of an approach for our times.-- "Revue francaise d'etudes americaines" An engaging, theoretically sophisticated book. . . Ultimately, this monograph should appeal to scholars of intertextuality, transatlantic studies, queer and gender studies, nineteenth-century American literary studies, and especially the works of Hawthorne and Melville. It is a book whose individual textual readings well reward the time spent with them.-- "Nineteenth-Century Contexts"