The Resource Death and the mother from Dickens to Freud : Victorian fiction and the anxiety of origins, Carolyn Dever
Death and the mother from Dickens to Freud : Victorian fiction and the anxiety of origins, Carolyn Dever
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- Summary
- 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 of the good mother as a cultural ideal. Maternal loss is the prerequisite for Victorian representations of domestic life, a fact which has especially complex implications for women. When Freud constructs psychoanalytical models of family, gender and desire, he too assumes that domesticity begins with the death of the mother. Analysing texts by Dickens, Collins, Eliot, Darwin and Woolf, as well as Freud, Klein and Winnicott, Dever argues that fictional and theoretical narratives alike use maternal absence to articulate concerns about gender and representation. Psychoanalysis has long been used to analyse Victorian fiction; Dever contends that Victorian fiction has much to teach us about psychoanalysis
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xv, 233 pages)
- Note
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
- Contents
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- 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."
- Isbn
- 9780511585302
- Label
- Death and the mother from Dickens to Freud : Victorian fiction and the anxiety of origins
- Title
- Death and the mother from Dickens to Freud
- Title remainder
- Victorian fiction and the anxiety of origins
- Statement of responsibility
- Carolyn Dever
- Title variation
- Death & the Mother from Dickens to Freud
- Subject
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- Maternal deprivation in literature
- Motherhood in literature
- Mothers in literature
- Psychoanalysis and literature -- Great Britain
- Psychological fiction, English -- History and criticism
- Sex role in literature
- Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
- Death in literature
- English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism
- Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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 of the good mother as a cultural ideal. Maternal loss is the prerequisite for Victorian representations of domestic life, a fact which has especially complex implications for women. When Freud constructs psychoanalytical models of family, gender and desire, he too assumes that domesticity begins with the death of the mother. Analysing texts by Dickens, Collins, Eliot, Darwin and Woolf, as well as Freud, Klein and Winnicott, Dever argues that fictional and theoretical narratives alike use maternal absence to articulate concerns about gender and representation. Psychoanalysis has long been used to analyse Victorian fiction; Dever contends that Victorian fiction has much to teach us about psychoanalysis
- Cataloging source
- UkCbUP
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Dever, Carolyn
- Dewey number
- 823/.8093520431
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- PR878.M69
- LC item number
- D48 1998
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- dictionaries
- Series statement
- Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture
- Series volume
- 17
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- English fiction
- Mothers in literature
- Psychoanalysis and literature
- Literature and society
- Women and literature
- Psychological fiction, English
- Maternal deprivation in literature
- Motherhood in literature
- Sex role in literature
- Death in literature
- Label
- Death and the mother from Dickens to Freud : Victorian fiction and the anxiety of origins, Carolyn Dever
- Note
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
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- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- 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."
- Control code
- CR9780511585302
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xv, 233 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780511585302
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- c
- Other physical details
- digital, PDF file(s).
- Specific material designation
- remote
- Label
- Death and the mother from Dickens to Freud : Victorian fiction and the anxiety of origins, Carolyn Dever
- Note
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- 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."
- Control code
- CR9780511585302
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xv, 233 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780511585302
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Other physical details
- digital, PDF file(s).
- Specific material designation
- remote
Subject
- Maternal deprivation in literature
- Motherhood in literature
- Mothers in literature
- Psychoanalysis and literature -- Great Britain
- Psychological fiction, English -- History and criticism
- Sex role in literature
- Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
- Death in literature
- English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism
- Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
Member of
- Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture, 17
- Online access with EBA: Cambridge Books Online
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