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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מחבר ראשי: Dever, Carolyn
פורמט: Licensed eBooks
שפה:אנגלית
יצא לאור: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1998.
סדרה:Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 17.
גישה מקוונת:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=55249
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