Title: Death and the mother from Dickens to Freud : Victorian fiction and the anxiety of origins /
Authors: Dever, Carolyn
Publisher: Cambridge University Press,
Year: 1998
Subjects: English fiction History and criticism; Mothers in literature; Psychoanalysis and literature Great Britain History; Literature and society Great Britain History; Women and literature Great Britain History; Psychological fiction, English History and criticism.; Maternal deprivation in literature.; Motherhood in literature.; Sex role in literature; Death in literature.; Literature history; Gender Identity history.; Death; Psychoanalysis
Contents: The lady vanishes -- Psychoanalytic cannibalism -- Broken mirror, broken wor-s: Bleak house -- Wilkie Collins and the secret of the mother's plot -- Denial, displacement, Deronda -- Calling Dr. Darwin --Virginia Woolf's "Victorian novel."