The Burdens of Intimacy
Subtitle: Psychoanalysis and Victorian Masculinity
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: December 15, 1998
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9780226468594
Subjects: Gender studies; Literary studies: 19th century; Psychoanalysis & psychoanalytical theory; 19th Century English Literature; Men In Literature; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; British Isles; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Psychology; Schreiner, Olive; Gay & Lesbian; 19th century; English literature; Great Britain; History and criticism; Masculinity in literature; Psychoanalysis and literature
First sentence: One of nineteenth-century England's most popular novels, Bulwer-Lytton's Pelham; or, The Adventures of a Gentleman gives us a remarkable-and contradictory-account of dandyism and masculine identification in Georgian society.