UID:
almafu_9959390802902883
Format:
1 online resource
ISBN:
9780814743973
Content:
George Eliot has been widely praised both for the richness of her prose and the universality of her themes. In this compelling study, Peggy Fitzhugh Johnstone goes beyond these traditional foci to examine the role of aggression in Eliot's fiction and to find its source in the author's unconscious sense of loss stemming from traumatic family separations and deaths during her childhood and adolescence. Johnstone demonstrates that Eliot's creative work was a constructive response to her sense of loss and that the repeating patterns in her novels reflect the process of release from her state of mourning for lost loved ones.
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Foreword --
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Acknowledgments --
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Introduction --
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ONE. Self-Disorder and Aggression in Adam Bede --
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TWO. Narcissistic Rage in The Mill on the Floss --
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THREE. Loss, Anxiety, and Cure: Mourning and Creativity in Silas Marner --
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FOUR. Pathological Narcissism in Romola --
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FIVE. Fear of the Mob in Felix Holt --
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SIX. The Vast Wreck of Ambitious Ideals in Middlemarch --
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SEVEN. The Pattern of the Myth of Narcissus in Daniel Deronda --
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Conclusion --
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Works Cited --
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Index
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In English.
Language:
English
Subjects:
English Studies
DOI:
10.18574/9780814743973
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780814743973
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780814743973
