Death and the mother from Dickens to Freud : Victorian fiction and the anxiety of origins / Carolyn Dever.

Author/creator Dever, Carolyn
Format Book
Publication InfoNew York : Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Descriptionxv, 233 pages ; 24 cm.
Subjects
Collins, Wilkie, 1824-1889. Woman in white--Criticism and interpretation.
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870. Bleak House--Criticism and interpretation.
Eliot, George, 1819-1880. Daniel Deronda--Criticism and interpretation.
Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941 To the lighthouse--Criticism and interpretation.
English fiction--19th century. --History and criticism.
Mothers in literature.
Psychoanalysis and literature--Great Britain. --History. --19th century.
Literature and society--Great Britain. --History. --19th century.
Women and literature--Great Britain. --History. --19th century.
Psychological fiction, English--History and criticism.
Maternal deprivation in literature.
Motherhood in literature.
Sex role in literature.
Death in literature.

SeriesCambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 17
Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture 17. ^A344711
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 213-229) and index.
LCCN 97027250
ISBN0521622808 (hb)

Availability

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Joyner General Stacks PR878.M69 D48 1998 ✔ Available Place Hold