The semantics of desire : changing models of identity from Dickens to Joyce / Philip M. Weinstein.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Weinstein, Philip M., author.

Series:

Princeton Legacy Library

Princeton legacy library

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English fiction--19th century--History and criticism.

Psychological fiction, English--History and criticism.

English fiction--20th century--History and criticism.

Identity (Psychology) in literature.

Mind and body in literature.

Desire in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (326 p.)

Edition:

Course Book

Place of Publication:

Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [1984]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This work examines the dialectic of desire and value, as it affects the protagonist's identity, in fiction from Dickens and George Eliot through Hardy and Conrad to Lawrence and Joyce. Philip Weinstein describes the growing sexualization of the imagined body--the transformation of the protagonistic self from a figure defined by semantics, signification, and cultural value to one characterized by desire, force, and natural impulse.Originally published in 1984.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Preface

Acknowledgments

A Note on Bibliographical Procedures and Primary Texts

Contents

Introduction

PART ONE. Mid-Victorian: Constraints and Masquerades

Chapter One. The Nocturnal Dickens

Chapter Two. George Eliot and the Idolatries of the Superego

PART TWO. Late-Victorian: Tragic Encounters

Chapter Three. Hardy: "Full-Hearted Evensong"

Chapter Four. Conrad: Against Nature

PART THREE. Modernist: Beginning the Revaluation

Chapter Five. "Become Who You Are": The Optative World of D. H. Lawrence

Chapter Six. New Heaven, New Earth: Joyce and the Art of Reprojection

Afterword

List of Works Cited

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 08. Jul 2019)

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4008-5739-2

OCLC:

922705251