{"product_id":"death-and-the-mother-from-dickens-to-freud-victorian-fiction-and-the-anxiety-of-origins-hardback-9780521622806","title":"Death and the Mother from Dickens to Freud; Victorian Fiction and the Anxiety of Origins (Hardback) 9780521622806","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eDeath and the Mother from Dickens to Freud\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eVictorian Fiction and the Anxiety of Origins\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAn exploration of the idealized figure of the dead mother in Victorian fiction and Freudian psychoanalysis.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eCarolyn Dever (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521622806, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 14 May 1998\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e252 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 16 x 2 cm, 0.492 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"...a shrewd and elegant account of the meaning of maternal loss in psychoanalysis...\"    SEL\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e 1. The lady vanishes\u003cbr\u003e 2. Psychoanalytic cannibalism\u003cbr\u003e 3. Broken mirror, broken words: Bleak House\u003cbr\u003e 4. Wilkie Collins and the secret of the mother's plot\u003cbr\u003e 5. Denial, displacement, Deronda\u003cbr\u003e 6. Calling Dr. Darwin\u003cbr\u003e 7. Virginia Woolf's 'Victorian novel'\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20studies:%20c%201800%20to%20c%201900%20%20%5BDSBF%5D%22\"\u003eDSBF\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46129276649752,"sku":"9780521622806","price":95.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521622806i.jpg?v=1691666534","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/death-and-the-mother-from-dickens-to-freud-victorian-fiction-and-the-anxiety-of-origins-hardback-9780521622806","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}