Alchemy, androgyny and utopianism -- Alchemists : self-portraits and interpretations -- William Godwin and his Necromancers -- William Godwin's St Leon -- Mary Shelley's Frankenstein -- Edward Bulwer Lytton's Zanoni -- George Lippard's Paul Ardenheim -- Nathaniel Hawthorne's The scarlet letter -- Herman Melville's Pierre
Summary
This book examines unnoticed aspects of characters in both marginal and canonical works of American and English fiction
