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Never Marry A Girl With A Dead Father: Women's Troubled Relationships in Realist Novels
Helen Hayward
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Paperback. The author reveals that the hysterical female character of the 19th-century novel is more than just a literary "femme fatale", and contends, using readings from Balzac, Eliot and others, that these narratives are sources for understanding hysterical states of mind. Num Pages: 232 pages, 6 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSK; JMAF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 140 x 217 x 14. Weight in Grams: 232. An excellent, clean copy
Freud's discovery of hysteria was both anticipated by, and grounded in, 19th-century realist fiction. Here, the author reveals how the dark continent that Freud called femininity was brought to life by these realist novelists. The hysterical character, she argues, conceives of every relationship as tragic, imaginatively doomed - hence the warning which forms the title of this book. Yet this character speaks for everyone. The insights of Anna Karenina, Gwendolen Harleth, or Cassandra give to them a dignity beyond pathology or their social position. They are not merely literary femmes fatales . It is part of being ... Read more
Freud's discovery of hysteria was both anticipated by, and grounded in, 19th-century realist fiction. Here, the author reveals how the dark continent that Freud called femininity was brought to life by these realist novelists. The hysterical character, she argues, conceives of every relationship as tragic, imaginatively doomed - hence the warning which forms the title of this book. Yet this character speaks for everyone. The insights of Anna Karenina, Gwendolen Harleth, or Cassandra give to them a dignity beyond pathology or their social position. They are not merely literary femmes fatales . It is part of being ... Read more
Product Details
Condition
Used, Like New
Publisher
I. B. Tauris London
Number of pages
232
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781860641879
SKU
KRS0019043
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About Helen Hayward
Helen Hayward is Lecturer in English at Birkbeck College, London.
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