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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Autor principal: Dever, Carolyn
Formato: Licensed eBooks
Idioma:inglês
Publicado em: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Colecção:Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 17.
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Sumário:
  • 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."