The Transformation of Rage: Mourning and Creativity in George Eliot's Fiction - Couverture souple

Johnstone, Peggy Fitzhugh

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0814742351 ISBN 13 : 9780814742358

Editeur : New York University Press, 1997

Synopsis

George Eliot has been widely praised both for the richness of her prose and the universality of her themes. In this compelling study, Peggy Fitzhugh Johnstone goes beyond these traditional foci to examine the role of aggression in Eliot's fiction and to find its source in the author's unconscious sense of loss stemming from traumatic family separations and deaths during her childhood and adolescence. Johnstone demonstrates that Eliot's creative work was a constructive response to her sense of loss and that the repeating patterns in her novels reflect the process of release from her state of mourning for lost loved ones.

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À propos de l?auteur

Peggy Fitzhugh Johnstone is an independent scholar in Saratoga Springs, New York. She has published essays on George Eliot in Hartford Studies, Literature and Psychology, and Mosaic.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: New York University Press
• Date d'édition: 1997
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0814742351
• ISBN 13: 9780814742358
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 224
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• Personne responsable: non disponible