New Directions in the Humanities Conference Proceedings
The International Journal of the Humanities: Annual Review
Debilitating Strength
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- Title: Debilitating Strength: The Paranoid Arc in American Literature
- Author(s): Eric Heyne
- Publisher: Common Ground Research Networks
- Collection: New Directions in the Humanities
- Journal Title: The International Journal of the Humanities: Annual Review
- Volume: 1
- Issue: 1
- Date: January 17, 2005
- ISSN: 1447-9508 (Print)
- ISSN: 1447-9559 (Online)
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.18848/1447-9508/CGP/v01/58154
- Citation: Heyne, Eric. 2005. "Debilitating Strength: The Paranoid Arc in American Literature." The International Journal of the Humanities: Annual Review 1 (1): 0-0. doi:10.18848/1447-9508/CGP/v01/58154.
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Abstract
Let me begin with a passage from Herman Melville’s 1850 essay on his new friend Nathaniel Hawthorne’s book, Mosses from an Old Manse:
