Books : Death and the Mother from Dickens to Freud: Victorian Fiction and the Anxiety of Origins (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture)
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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 305
EAN num: 9780521032551
ISBN number: 0521032555
Label: Cambridge University Press
Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 252
Printing Date: November 23, 2006
Publishing house: Cambridge University Press
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Studio: Cambridge University Press
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Victorian culture is famous for its idealization of mothers and families, yet the popular novels of this period frequently feature mothers who are dead or otherwise absent. Through an analysis of the work of Dickens, Collins, Eliot, Darwin and Woolf, Carolyn Dever discusses this apparent paradox. She shows how the idealized dead mother is fundamental to the Victorians' idea of origins, and later becomes the central figure of Freudian psychoanalysis. Dever demonstrates that Victorian literature and psychoanalysis have much to teach us about each other.
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