Death and the Mother From Dickens to Freud - Victorian Fiction and the Anxiety of Origins

Klappentext An exploration of the idealized figure of the dead mother in Victorian fiction and Freudian psychoanalysis. Zusammenfassung Carolyn Dever discusses the apparent paradox that! while Victorian culture idealized the figure of the mother! many popular novels of the period feature mothers who are dead or absent. She goes on to consider the relationship of the dead mother to Victorian theories of origin and Freudian psychoanalysis. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; 1. The lady vanishes; 2. Psychoanalytic cannibalism; 3. Broken mirror, broken words: Bleak House; 4. Wilkie Collins and the secret of the mother's plot; 5. Denial, displacement, Deronda; 6. Calling Dr. Darwin; 7. Virginia Woolf's 'Victorian novel'; Notes; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Carolyn Dever, Carolyn (Vanderbilt University Dever
• Assisted by: Gillian Beer (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 23.11.2006
• EAN: 9780521032551
• ISBN: 978-0-521-03255-1
• No. of pages: 252
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Nineteent
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies