| Description |
x, 271 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Patriarch of one's own : oedipal fantasy and romantic love in Jane Eyre -- Down the yellow brick road : unconcious reading processes and change -- Two stories of Little women : oedipal prescriptions, preoedipal creativity -- Revolutionary languages in The Awakening -- Housekeeping : the impossible poetry of the preoedipal -- Toward a more creative autonomy : To the lighthouse, Violet Clay, Bodily harm, "How I came to write fiction," and On not being able to paint -- Talking back to Jane Eyre : female sexuality and the intertext of love in The Waterfall -- Sexual politics of the unconscious : The Golden notebook -- Eros as creativity : the extended family in The Color purple -- Family circles : Beloved, The Middle ground, A Weave of women, Housekeeping, Little women, The Color purple |
| Analysis |
American fiction Women authors History and criticism |
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Desire in literature |
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English fiction Women authors History and criticism |
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Fantasy in literature |
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Femininity in literature |
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Psychoanalysis and literature |
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Subconsciousness in literature |
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Women and literature English-speaking countries |
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Women in literature |
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Women Books and reading |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [249]-262) and index |
| Notes |
Also issued online |
| Subject |
American fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
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Desire in literature.
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English fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
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Fantasy in literature.
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Femininity in literature.
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Psychoanalysis and literature.
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Subconsciousness in literature.
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Women and literature -- English-speaking countries.
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Women and literature -- Great Britain.
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Women and literature -- United States.
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Women in literature.
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Women -- Books and reading.
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| LC no. |
90012010 |
| ISBN |
0807819158 (alk. paper) |
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0807842850 (paperback: alk. paper) |
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