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Death and the Mother From Dickens to Freud: Victorian Fiction and the Anxiety of Origins
Author: Carolyn Dever
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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 fundamental to the Victorians idea of origins, and later becomes the central figure of Freudian psychoanalysis. Dever demonstrates that Victorian literature and psychoanalysis have much to teach us about each other.ReviewThis volume will suit those who enjoy post-Freudian analysis of literature.... ChoiceCarolyn Devers book is well-researched and excellent study about the actual medical and idealized literary versions of mothers dying in childbirth in Victorian England. Monika Elbert, Journal of the Association for Research in Mothering...[an] often brilliantly illuminating, always compelling discussion of the significance of maternal death in Victorian narrative. Devers close, theoreticallu sophisticated, often delightfully witty readings display both her originality and her synthetic skill. Her analysis of the analysts is a tour de force (she is a superb reader of Klein in perticular), and her discussion of Victorian narrative as an elaborate fort-da game - where the mothers absence is controlled and displaced by its representation - is splendid. Eileen Gilloly, Victorian StudiesCarolyn Devers Death and the Mother from Dickens to Freud Victorian Fiction and the Anxiety of Origins is a shrewd and elegant account of the meaning of maternal loss in psychoanalysis...and in Bleak House, The Woman in White, Daniel Deronda, Charles Darwins Autobiography, and To the Lighthouse. Dever understands Freudian psychoanalytic theory and the Victorian novel to dwell within a common horizon of cultural assumptions, which is why she is able so persuasively to read Freuds case studies as exemplifying mid-Victorian fictional tropes. Linda Dowling, Studies in English Literature...a shrewd and elegant account of the meaning of maternal loss in psychoanalysis... SEL Book DescriptionVictorian 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 idealised dead mother is fundamental to the Victorians idea of origins, and later becomes the central figure of Freudian psychoanalysis. Dever demonstrates that Victorian literature and psychoanalysis have much to teach us about each other.
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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 fundamental to the Victorians idea of origins, and later becomes the central figure of Freudian psychoanalysis. Dever demonstrates that Victorian literature and psychoanalysis have much to teach us about each other.ReviewThis volume will suit those who enjoy post-Freudian analysis of literature.... ChoiceCarolyn Devers book is well-researched and excellent study about the actual medical and idealized literary versions of mothers dying in childbirth in Victorian England. Monika Elbert, Journal of the Association for Research in Mothering...[an] often brilliantly illuminating, always compelling discussion of the significance of maternal death in Victorian narrative. Devers close, theoreticallu sophisticated, often delightfully witty readings display both her originality and her synthetic skill. Her analysis of the analysts is a tour de force (she is a superb reader of Klein in perticular), and her discussion of Victorian narrative as an elaborate fort-da game - where the mothers absence is controlled and displaced by its representation - is splendid. Eileen Gilloly, Victorian StudiesCarolyn Devers Death and the Mother from Dickens to Freud Victorian Fiction and the Anxiety of Origins is a shrewd and elegant account of the meaning of maternal loss in psychoanalysis...and in Bleak House, The Woman in White, Daniel Deronda, Charles Darwins Autobiography, and To the Lighthouse. Dever understands Freudian psychoanalytic theory and the Victorian novel to dwell within a common horizon of cultural assumptions, which is why she is able so persuasively to read Freuds case studies as exemplifying mid-Victorian fictional tropes. Linda Dowling, Studies in English Literature...a shrewd and elegant account of the meaning of maternal loss in psychoanalysis... SEL Book DescriptionVictorian 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 idealised dead mother is fundamental to the Victorians idea of origins, and later becomes the central figure of Freudian psychoanalysis. Dever demonstrates that Victorian literature and psychoanalysis have much to teach us about each other.
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