Monstrous Kinships - Realism Attachment Theory in Nineteenth Early Twentieth Century

Informationen zum Autor Jillmarie Murphy Klappentext Monstrous Kinships: Realism and Attachment Theory in the Novels of Mary Shelley, Herman Melville, Thomas Hardy, Stephen Crane, Theodore Dreiser, and Vladimir Nabokov investigates the connection between realist fiction of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and the psychoanalytic approach of John Bowlby's Attachment Theory. Attachment Theory arises from the guiding principles of realism and the veratist's devotion to long-term, direct observation of subject matter. Additionally, because Attachment Theory originated in the field of child psychoanalysis, this book highlights the detrimental effects of parental obsession and abandonment, industrialism, poverty, alcoholism, religious addiction, and physical, emotional, and sexual abuse on child characters. The subject of Monstrous Kinships is timely, as literary critics and theorists as well as creative writers continue to expand their range of inquiry to include the child as primary subject in various treatments of post-colonial and transnational culture. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Chapter 1: Monstrous Kinships: Attachment and Loss in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Herman Melville's Pierre Chapter 3 Chapter 2: 'And their ways are filled with thorns': Obsessive Passion and the Despair of Innocence in Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure Chapter 4 Chapter 3: 'Howls and Curses, Groans and Shrieks': Alcoholism and Life's Foreclosed Possibilities in Stephen Crane's Maggie: A Girl of the Streets Chapter 5 Chapter 4: 'Sorrow and the Weight of Sin': Religious Obsession in Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy Chapter 6 Epilogue

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Jillmarie Murphy, Murphy Jillmarie
• Edition: Rowman and Littlefield
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Relié
• Sortie: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9781611490503
• ISBN: 978-1-61149-050-3
• Pages: 208
• Catégories: Littérature > Poésie, théâtre; Sciences humaines, art, musique > Linguistique et littérature > Littérature générale et comparée; LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form, Literary Studies;Theory