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Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Warring Doctors and Meddling Ministers
- Mosaic: a journal for the interdisciplinary study of literature
- Mosaic, an interdisciplinary critical journal
- Volume 47, Number 1, March 2014
- pp. 111-128
- 10.1353/mos.2014.0005
- Article
- Additional Information
Abstract
Nathaniel Hawthorne’s stories “The Rejected Blessing” and “Rappaccini’s Daughter” dramatize ideological competition among doctors and clergymen from Renaissance Italy to colonial Boston over care of the body. In the context of Hawthorne’s life, these stories show his foresighted theorizing of medical hegemony and its dangers to public and individual health.
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