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Shelley's goddess : maternity, language, subjectivity / Barbara Charlesworth Gelpi.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gelpi, Barbara Charlesworth, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822--Criticism and interpretation.
- Shelley, Percy Bysshe.
- Mother and child in literature.
- Psychoanalysis and literature.
- Subjectivity in literature.
- Motherhood in literature.
- Infants in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (332 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 1992.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Gelpi examines the importance of the mother-infant relationship in Percy Bysshe Shelley's poetry and life. Her book also uses Shelley as a touchstone by which to examine the rich historical and theoretical issues relevant to motherhood in the Romantic period.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Abbreviations
- PART I: THE NURSE'S SOUL
- 1. Infancy Narratives
- The Lacanian-Kristevan Narrative
- The Interpersonal Narrative
- Notes
- 2. Her Destined Sphere
- Maternity Eroticized
- The Mother-Educator
- The Mother God(dess)
- 3. Queen of the Field Place Hive
- Strategies of Infant Desire
- A Mother-Son Alliance
- Comus at Field Place
- PART II: RE-MEMBERING THE MOTHER
- 4. Seeing Through Mirrors (Prometheus Unbound, Act I)
- 5. The Source of Desire Seeks the End of Desire (Prometheus Unbound, Act II)
- The Gaze of Soul-Making (Scene i)
- The Caverns of Thought (Scenes i and ii)
- Ritual Descent (Scenes iii and iv)
- Prometheus/Adonis and the Mother Goddess (Scene v)
- 6. "Where the Split Began" (Prometheus Unbound, Act III)
- The Rape of Thetis (Scene i)
- Utopian Paradigms (Scene ii)
- Mother and Son (Scene iii)
- The Dipsas of Desire (Scene iv)
- Conclusion
- Works Cited
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 274-287) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (EBook Central, viewed February 10, 2025).
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781601298690
- 1601298692
- 9781423737599
- 1423737598
- 9781280441486
- 1280441488
- 9780195073836
- 0195073835
- 9780195360820
- 0195360826
- OCLC:
- 935226988
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