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Never Marry a Girl with a Dead Father : Women's Troubled Relationships in Realist Novels

by Helen Hayward
Never Marry a Girl with a Dead Father : Women's Troubled Relationships in Realist Novels - Thryft
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Tragic portrayal of women in realist literature

Recommended for those interested in feminist literary criticism, exploring the portrayal of female characters in literature and the intersection of psychology and literature. The author analyzes characters from various realist novels, emphasizing the link between realist literature and Freud’s conception of femininity.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

Never Marry a Girl with a Dead Father : Women's Troubled Relationships in Realist Novels

by Helen Hayward
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ISBN: 9781860641879
Author: Helen Hayward
Publisher: I.B.Tauris
Date of Publication: 1999-10-01
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Literature, Psychology, Sociology
Related Topics: Gender, Womens
Goodreads rating: 2.25
(rated by 4 readers)

Description

Freud's ""discovery"" of hysteria was both anticipated by, and grounded in, 19th-century realist fiction. Here, the author reveals how the dark continent that Freud called femininity was brought to life by these realist novelists. The hysterical character, she argues, conceives of every relationship as tragic, imaginatively doomed - hence the warning which forms the title of this book.Yet this character speaks for everyone. The insights of Anna Karenina, Gwendolen Harleth, or Cassandra give to them a dignity beyond pathology or their social position. They are not merely literary ""femmes fatales"". It is part of being civilized, the author argues, to fear the people and things we love, particularly when they are intimate to us. Knowing this, each person is responsible for the form this apprehension takes - whether awe or panic, respect or protest, desire or denial. She develops these ideas through of texts by Balzac, George Eliot, Charlotte Bronte, Tolstoy and Florence Nightingale, demonstrating her contention that these narratives are rich sources for understanding hysterical states of mind because they offer scope for interpretation that involves everyone as readers.
 

Tragic portrayal of women in realist literature

Recommended for those interested in feminist literary criticism, exploring the portrayal of female characters in literature and the intersection of psychology and literature. The author analyzes characters from various realist novels, emphasizing the link between realist literature and Freud’s conception of femininity.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

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