The Semantics of Desire : Changing Models of Identity from Dickens to Joyce /

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This work examines the dialectic of desire and value, as it affects the protagonist's identity, in fiction from Dickens and George Eliot through Hardy and Conrad to Lawrence and Joyce. Philip Weinstein describes the growing sexualization of the imagined body--the transformation of the protagoni...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Weinstein, Philip M. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2014]
Edición:Course Book
Colección:Princeton Legacy Library ; 520
Temas:
Desire in literature.
English fiction > History and criticism > 19th century.
English fiction > History and criticism > 20th century.
English fiction > 19th century > History and criticism.
English fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
Identity (Psychology) in literature.
Mind and body in literature.
Psychological fiction, English > History and criticism.
LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • A Note on Bibliographical Procedures and Primary Texts
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • PART ONE. Mid-Victorian: Constraints and Masquerades
  • Introduction
  • Chapter One. The Nocturnal Dickens
  • Chapter Two. George Eliot and the Idolatries of the Superego
  • PART TWO. Late-Victorian: Tragic Encounters
  • Introduction
  • Chapter Three. Hardy: "Full-Hearted Evensong"
  • Chapter Four. Conrad: Against Nature
  • PART THREE. Modernist: Beginning the Revaluation
  • Introduction
  • Chapter Five. "Become Who You Are": The Optative World of D. H. Lawrence
  • Chapter Six. New Heaven, New Earth: Joyce and the Art of Reprojection
  • Afterword
  • List of Works Cited
  • Index

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