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Death and the Mother from Dickens to Freud: Victorian Fiction and the Anxiety of Origins (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture)
Death and the Mother from Dickens to Freud Victorian Fiction and the Anxiety of Origins - Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
Author: Carolyn Dever
Victorian culture is famous for its idealization of mothers and families, yet the popular novels of this period frequently feature mothers who are dead or otherwise absent. Through an analysis of the work of Dickens, Collins, Eliot, Darwin and Woolf, Carolyn Dever discusses this apparent paradox. She shows how the idealized dead mother is fundam...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780521032551
ISBN-10: 0521032555
Publication Date: 11/23/2006
Pages: 252
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Book Type: Paperback
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