Fictions of home
Subtitle: narratives of alienation and belonging, 1850-2000
By: Martin Mühlheim
Series: Schweizer anglistische Arbeiten -- Band 143; Schweizer anglistische Arbeiten -- Bd. 143.
Publisher: Narr Francke Attempto
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Tübingen
Language: eng
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9783772086373
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Home in literature; Alienation (Social psychology) in literature; American fiction; History and criticism; English fiction
Other titles: Narratives of alienation and belonging, 1850-2000
Notes: Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--Universität, Zürich, 2014.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-367) and index.

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Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Theories of home: alienation and belonging in Steven Spielberg's 'E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial'; title: "Another orphan": trauma and transcendental homelessness in Herman Melville's Moby-Dick: or, The whale; title: "Whom she belongs to": gender, genre, and "immovable roots" in George Eliot's 'The mill on the floss'; title: "The majesty of England": the ethics of home and the imperial city in Virginia Woolf's 'Mrs. Dalloway'; title: "Everybody seemed to have a home": history, innocence, and the nightmare of belonging in William Faulkner's 'Absalom, Absalom'; title: "People still living in the derelict houses": realism, class, and the fragile body in Pat Barker's 'Union Street'; title: "Saddened by a history we knew nothing about": collective memory and rituals of mourning in Jeffrey Eugenides's 'The virgin suicides'; title: Conclusion; title: The end of intellectual nomadism; title: Bibliography; title: Index; title: Images.