The Madder Stain - A Psychoanalytic Reading of Thomas Hardy

The "madder stain" imprinted on Tess d'Urberville's arm is part of a motif which runs through Hardy's fiction. This book attempts to approach that unknowable kernel of jouissance by using Lacan's concepts of object-gaze and object-voice--sometimes revisited by Zizek.

About the author

Annie Ramel taught Victorian and contemporary literature at University Lumière-Lyon 2. She is president of FATHOM (French Association for Thomas Hardy Studies). The author of numerous articles on Thomas Hardy, she has also published a book on Great Expectations (Great Expectations: Le Père ou le pire), as well as articles on Charles Dickens, Henry James, George Eliot, and Oscar Wilde.

Product details

• Authors: Annie Ramel
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 12.06.2015
• EAN: 9789004293403
• ISBN: 978-90-04-29340-3
• No. of pages: 190
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 241 mm x 10 mm
• Weight: 340 g
• Series: Contemporary Psychoanalytic St
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies