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Record Nr.

UNISA996588062003316

Autore

Johnstone Peggy Fitzhugh

Titolo

Transformation of Rage : Mourning and Creativity in George Eliot's Fiction / / Peggy Fitzhugh Johnstone

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, NY : , : New York University Press, , [1994]

©1994

ISBN

0-8147-4397-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (226 p.)

Collana

Literature and psychoanalysis ; ; 7

Classificazione

HL 2745

Disciplina

823.8

Soggetti

Anger in literature

Grief in literature

Emotions in literature

Creativity in literature

Psychoanalysis and literature - England

Characters and characteristics in literature

Psychological fiction, English - History and criticism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-202) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- ONE. Self-Disorder and Aggression in Adam Bede -- TWO. Narcissistic Rage in The Mill on the Floss -- THREE. Loss, Anxiety, and Cure: Mourning and Creativity in Silas Marner -- FOUR. Pathological Narcissism in Romola -- FIVE. Fear of the Mob in Felix Holt -- SIX. The Vast Wreck of Ambitious Ideals in Middlemarch -- SEVEN. The Pattern of the Myth of Narcissus in Daniel Deronda -- Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

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.