Keywords:
Psychological fiction, English--History and criticism
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Electronic books
Description / Table of Contents:
George Eliot has been widely praised both for the richness of her prose and the universality of her themes. In this compelling study, Peggy Fitzhugh Johnstone goes beyond these traditional foci to examine the role of aggression in Eliot's fiction and to find its source in the author's unconscious sense of loss stemming from traumatic family separations and deaths during her childhood and adolescence. Johnstone demonstrates that Eliot's creative work was a constructive response to her sense of loss and that the repeating patterns in her novels reflect the process of release from her state of mo
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
Pages:
Online-Ressource (226 p.)
ISBN:
9780814741948
Series Statement:
Literature & Psychoanalysis S
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http://gbv.eblib.com/patron/FullRecord.aspx?p=865587
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=865587
URL:
https://external.dandelon.com/download/attachments/dandelon/ids/DE006A291964748EB7FBEC1257A360044DA88.pdf
DDC:
823.8
Language:
English
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; ONE Self-Disorder and Aggression in Adam Bede; TWO Narcissistic Rage in The Mill on the Floss; THREE Loss, Anxiety, and Cure: Mourning and Creativity in Silas Marner; FOUR Pathological Narcissism in Romola; FIVE Fear of the Mob in Felix Holt; SIX The Vast Wreck of Ambitious Ideals in Middlemarch; SEVEN The Pattern of the Myth of Narcissus in Daniel Deronda; Conclusion; Works Cited; Index;