Madeleine Wood

Parents and Children in the Mid-Victorian Novel (eBook, PDF)

Traumatic Encounters and the Formation of Family

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer International Publishing
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Oktober 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783030454692
• Artikelnr.: 61344386

Autorenporträt

Inhaltsangabe

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1. Crisis in Relations: Psychic Wounds, Fantasy, and the Construction of Family.- 2. Emily and Charlotte Brontë - Childhood Passions and Pathologies: Wuthering Heights and Shirley.- 3. Charles Dickens - Lost Children and 'Primal Scenes': 'the 'autobiographical fragment', Dombey and Son, and Great Expectations.- 4. Wilkie Collins - Inheritance and the Vampiric: No Name and Armadale.- 5. Elizabeth Gaskell and George Eliot - Mourning and Elegy: North and South and The Mill on the Floss.

Rezensionen

"The book is rich in supplemental details, including: the Romantic cult of the child as it transforms across the Victorian era; legal touchstones in parent-child relations; and themes related to illness ... . It is truly fascinating that this monograph-Wood's final literary engagement with the clinical diagnoses and problems that are now part of her professional life-focuses on adult responses to childhood traumas, responses that transcend the fictional worlds and enfold the works' authors." (Melissa Jenkins, Victorian Studies, Vol. 65 (1), 2022)