Women, Love, and Power : Literary and Psychoanalytic Perspectives / Elaine Baruch.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Baruch, Elaine, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Control (Psychology).

Women and psychoanalysis.

Feminism and literature.

Love in literature.

Psychoanalysis and literature.

Literature, Modern--History and criticism.

Literature, Modern.

Literature--Psychology.

Literature.

Women in literature.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (291 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : New York University Press, [1991]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Elaine Baruch is not only among the most quiet-voiced and fair-minded of feminist writers. She is also among the most far-ranging in her scholarship, equally at ease with the writers of the Renaissance and Freud, the medieval troubadours, and our contemporary polemicists. . . instructive, absorbing, and persuasive.--Diana Trilling A lively mind is at work here and a keen and witty writer too.--Irving HoweThis is a fine collection of essays. . . making many imaginative conjectures and amusing connections.--Times Literary SupplementIn these essays what emerges is a history of romantic love. . . Highly recommended.--Library Journal Arguing that romantic love need not be a tool of women's oppression, feminist critic Baruch. . . contends that unacknowledged male fantasies about love motivate much literature by men. . . rewarding, provocative.--Publishers Weekly Utilizing both Freudian and non-Freudian psychoanalysis as well as feminist criticism, Baruch examines literary works by women and men from medieval and Romantic periods as well as cultural observations on the twentieth century and how they have influenced attitudes toward love.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

1. Introduction

2. Whatever Happened to Romantic Love?

3. He Speaks/She Speaks: Language in Some Medieval Love Literature

4. The Politics of Courtship

5. Marvell's "Nymph": A Study of Feminine Consciousness

6. Romantic Narcissism: Freud and the Love O/Abject

7. On Splitting the Sexual Object: Before and After Freud

8. The Feminine Bildungsroman: Education through Marriage

9. Ibsen's Doll House: A Myth for Our Time

10. Women and Love: Some Dying Myths

11. "A Natural and Necessary Monster": Women in Men's Utopias

12. Love and the Sexual Object in Zamyatin's We and Orwell's 1984, with a Postscript on the Feminist Utopia

13. The Female Body and the Male Mind: Reconsidering Simone de Beauvoir

14. The Return of Romantic Love: Living the Literature

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jun 2020)

ISBN:

9780814723371

0814723373

OCLC:

835520063