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Lacan and fantasy literature : portents of modernity in late-Victorian and Edwardian fiction / by Josephine Sharoni.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sharoni, Josephine, author.
- Series:
- Contemporary psychoanalytic studies ; volume 23.
- Contemporary psychoanalytic studies, 1571-4977 ; volume 23
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Psychoanalysis and literature--England--History--19th century.
- Psychoanalysis and literature.
- Fantasy fiction, English--History and criticism--Theory, etc.
- Fantasy fiction, English.
- Horror fiction, English--History and criticism--Theory, etc.
- Horror fiction, English.
- English fiction--19th century--History and criticism.
- English fiction.
- Civilization, Modern, in literature.
- Lacan, Jacques, 1901-1981.
- Lacan, Jacques.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (245 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill-Rodopi, [2017]
- Summary:
- Eschewing the all-pervading contextual approach to literary criticism, this book takes a Lacanian view of several popular British fantasy texts of the late 19th century such as Bram Stoker’s Dracula , revealing the significance of the historical context; the advent of a modern democratic urban society in place of the traditional agrarian one. Moreover, counter-intuitively it turns out that fantasy literature is analogous to modern Galilean science in its manipulation of the symbolic thereby changing our conception of reality. It is imaginary devices such as vampires and ape-men, which in conjunction with Lacanian theory say something additional of the truth about – primarily sexual – aspects of human subjectivity and culture, repressed by the contemporary hegemonic discourses.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- The Modernization of Britain 1870–1914
- Lacan and the Question of Evidence
- Lacan’s Reconsideration of Totem and Taboo
- Science and the Thing: Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Lost World
- The Missing Name-of-the-Father: She
- The Recuperation of the Thing: ‘The Horror of the Heights’
- The Name-of-Science: The Invisible Man
- The Re-inscription of the Name-of-the-Father: Dracula
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 90-04-33658-3
- Publisher Number:
- 10.1163/9789004336582 DOI
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