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Transformation of Rage : Mourning and Creativity in George Eliot's Fiction / Peggy Fitzhugh Johnstone.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Johnstone, Peggy Fitzhugh, Author.
- Series:
- Literature and psychoanalysis ; 7.
- Literature and psychoanalysis ; 7
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Eliot, George, 1819-1880--Knowledge--Psychology.
- Eliot, George.
- Anger in literature.
- Grief in literature.
- Emotions in literature.
- Creativity in literature.
- Psychoanalysis and literature--England.
- Psychoanalysis and literature.
- Characters and characteristics in literature.
- Psychological fiction, English--History and criticism.
- Psychological fiction, English.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (226 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : New York University Press, [1994]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- ONE. Self-Disorder and Aggression in Adam Bede
- TWO. Narcissistic Rage in The Mill on the Floss
- THREE. Loss, Anxiety, and Cure: Mourning and Creativity in Silas Marner
- FOUR. Pathological Narcissism in Romola
- FIVE. Fear of the Mob in Felix Holt
- SIX. The Vast Wreck of Ambitious Ideals in Middlemarch
- SEVEN. The Pattern of the Myth of Narcissus in Daniel Deronda
- Conclusion
- Works Cited
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-202) and index.
- This eBook is made available Open Access under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jun 2020)
- ISBN:
- 9780814743973
- 0814743978
- OCLC:
- 782877975
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