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Author Weinstein, Philip M.

Title The semantics of desire : changing models of identity from Dickens to Joyce / Philip M. Weinstein.

Publication Info. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [1984]
©1984

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 Moore Stacks  PR878.I3 W4 1984    Available  ---
Description xiv, 310 pages ; 23 cm
Note Includes index.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-303) and index.
Contents pt. 1. Mid-Victorian: constraints and masquerades: ch. 1. Nocturnal Dickens: A palimpsest of motives in David Copperfield ; Enigmas of power and impotence: Little Dorrit -- ch. 2. George Eliot and the idolatries of the superego: Body bruised to pleasure soul: The mill on the Floss ; "A great deal of slow poisoning": Daniel Deronda -- pt. 2. Late-Victorians: tragic encounters: ch. 3. Hardy: "full-hearted evensong": "We are the children of the soil": Tess of the d'Ubervilles ; "The spirit unappeased and peregrine": Jude the Obscure -- ch. 4. Conrad: against nature: "Nothing can touch me": Lord Jim ; Fictions of discourse, purpose, and identity in Nostromo -- pt. 3. Modernist: beginning the revaluation: ch. 5. "Become who you are": the optative world of D.H. Lawrence: "The trembling instability" of Women in love ; Choosing between the quick and the dead: three versions of Lady Chatterley's lover -- ch. 6. New heaven, new earth: Joyce and the art of reprojection.
Subject English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
English fiction.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Psychological fiction, English -- History and criticism.
Psychological fiction, English.
English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Identity (Psychology) in literature.
Identity (Psychology) in literature.
Mind and body in literature.
Mind and body in literature.
Desire in literature.
Desire in literature.
Indexed Term Fiction in English, 1837-1945. Characters Psychology - Critical studies
Subject Roman anglais -- 19e siècle -- Histoire et critique.
Roman anglais -- 20e siècle -- Histoire et critique.
Identité (Psychologie) dans la littérature.
Esprit et corps dans la littérature.
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