Death and the Mother from Dickens to Freud
Subtitle: Victorian Fiction and the Anxiety of Origins (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: November 23, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 251
ISBN-13: 9780521032551
Subjects: Literary studies: 19th century; Social Science; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; Sociology; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Regional, Ethnic, Genre, Specific Subject; English fiction--19th century--History and cr; English fiction--19th century--History and criticism; Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism-Regional, Ethnic, Genre, Specific Subject; Social Science / Gender Studies; Gender Studies
First sentence: To write a life, in the Victorian period, is to write the story of the loss of the mother.