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

Published Cmbridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1998

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Description xv, 233 pages ; 24 cm Series Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 17 Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 17 Contents 1. The lady vanishes -- 2. Psychoanalytic cannibalism -- 3. Broken mirror, broken words: Bleak House -- 4. Wilkie Collins and the secret of the mother's plot -- 5. Denial, displacement, Deronda -- 6. Calling Dr. Darwin -- 7. Virginia Woolf's "Victorian novel" Notes Includes index Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-229) and index Subject 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. Death in literature. English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism. Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century. Maternal deprivation in literature. Motherhood in literature. Mothers in literature. Psychoanalysis and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century. Psychological fiction, English -- History and criticism. Sex role in literature. Psychoanalysis and literature -- Great Britain. Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century. LC no. 97027250 ISBN 0521622808 (hb)

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