Transformation of Rage - Mourning and Creativity in George Eliot's Fiction

About the author

Peggy Fitzhugh Johnstone is an independent scholar in Saratoga Springs, New York. She has published essays on George Eliot in Hartford Studies, Literature and Psychology, and Mosaic.

Summary

This is a psychoanalytic study of George Eliot's fiction. It focuses centrally on aggression in Eliot's novels, drawing on the clinical work of psychoanalyists. The author argues that Eliot's is a hidden aggression, and demonstrates the ways in which this aggression is manifested in her characters.

Product details

• Authors: Peggy Fitzhugh Johnstone
• Assisted by: Robert Liberles (Editor), Stanford Lyman (Editor)
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.10.1994
• EAN: 9780814741948
• ISBN: 978-0-8147-4194-8
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Literature & Psychoanalysis; Literature and Psychoanalysis; Open Access Lib and Hc
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies