Scenes of Shame

Joseph Adamson is Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at McMaster University. He is the author of Melville, Shame, and the Evil Eye, also published by SUNY Press; Wounded Fiction: Modern Poetry and Deconstruction; and Northrop Frye: A Visionary Life. Hilary Clark is Associate Professor of English at the University of Saskatchewan and author of The Fictional Encyclopedia: Joyce, Pound, Sollers.

"This book has something for everybody. On the one hand it introduces the reader to the depth and importance of an important emotion—shame. On the other hand, this attention to shame suggests original approaches to the work of well-known poets, novelists, and philosophers." — Marshall Alcorn, George Washington University"The topic is central to psychoanalytic studies and literary criticism. In fact, I see a good chance that this book could break new ground in criticism, thus becoming a frequently cited work. As I read the book, I realized how significant shame is in the work of many writers who are not even mentioned here—e.g., Coleridge, Conrad, Dickens, and, most of all, Doestoevsky." — Daniel W. Ross, Columbus State University

• Foreword Acknowledgments Contributors Chapter 1 Introduction: Shame, Affect, WritingJoseph Adamson and Hilary ClarkChapter 2 The Disappearing Who: Kierkegaard, Shame, and the SelfBenjamin KilborneChapter 3 Guardian of the "Inmost Me": Hawthorne and ShameJoseph AdamsonChapter 4 Ardor and Shame in MiddlemarchGordon HirschChapter 5 George Eliot and Dilemmas of the Female ChildJoseph D. Lichtenberg Chapter 6 "Man of the Most Dangerous Curiosity": Nietszche's "Fruitful and Frightful Vision" and His War against ShameLéon Wurmser Chapter 7 "The Dread and Repulsiveness of the Wild": D. H. Lawrence and ShameBarbara Schapiro Chapter 8 Shame in Japan and the American South: Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!Philip Collington Chapter 9 Depression, Shame, and Reparation: The Case of Anne SextonHilary Clark Chapter 10 "Quiet As It's Kept": Shame and Trauma in Toni Morrison's The Bluest EyeJ. Brooks Bouson Chapter 11 Unmasking Shame in an Expository Writing CourseJeffrey Berman Name Index Subject Index