Monstrous kinships
Subtitle: realism and attachment theory in the novels of Mary Shelley, Herman Melville, Thomas Hardy, Stephen Crane, Theodore Dreiser, and Vladimir Nabokov
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Newark
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781611490503
Subjects: Parental deprivation in literature; Realism in literature; Child abuse in literature; Attachment behavior in literature; American fiction; History and criticism; English fiction
Other titles: Realism and attachment theory in the novels of Mary Shelley, Herman Melville, Thomas Hardy, Stephen Crane, Theodore Dreiser, and Vladimir Nabokov
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "Monstrous kinships" : attachment and loss in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Herman Melville's Pierre; title: "And their ways are filled with thorns" : obsessive passion  and the despair of innocence in Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure; title: "Howls and curses, groans and shrieks" : alcoholism and life's foreclosed possibilities in Stephen Crane's Maggie: a girl of the streets; title: "Sorrow and the weight of sin" : religious obsession in Theodore Dreiser's An American tragedy; title: Epilogue.