Death and the mother from Dickens to Freud : Victorian fiction and the anxiety of origins /
The cultural ideal of motherhood in Victorian Britain seems to be undermined by Victorian novels, which almost always represent mothers as incapacitated, abandoning or dead. Carolyn Dever argues that the phenomenon of the dead or missing mother in Victorian narrative is central to the construction o...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
1998.
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| Series: | Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ;
17. |
| Online Access: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=55249 |
Table of Contents:
- The lady vanishes
- Psychoanalytic cannibalism
- Broken mirror, broken wor-s: Bleak house
- Wilkie Collins and the secret of the mother's plot
- Denial, displacement, Deronda
- Calling Dr. Darwin
- Virginia Woolf's "Victorian novel."