Hawthorne's Shyness - Ethics, Politics and the Question of Engagement

Acknowledgments ix Prologue: The Whipple Daguerreotype, 1848 1 The Ethical Subject 5(30) PART I. The Philosophy of Shyness 2 Romantic Truth 35(18) 3 Ethics and the Face: Hawthorne and Levinas 53(24) PART II. The Politics of Shyness 4 Ethics and Politics: The Question of Engagement 77(28) 5 Chiefly about Coverdale: The Blithedale Romance 105(16) PART III. Shyness and History 6 Forgetting the Secret 121(22) 7 Exiled by History: The Marble Faun 143(12) Epilogue: The Elixir of Life 155(4) Notes 159(620) Bibliography 779 Index 185