LEADER 03391nam 22005775 450 001 9910213823703321 005 20250322110037.0 010 $a9780814744871 010 $a0814744877 024 7 $a10.18574/9780814744871 035 $a(CKB)2670000000167783 035 $a(EBL)865616 035 $a(OCoLC)782877992 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000633203 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11392596 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000633203 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10620124 035 $a(PQKB)11075137 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC865616 035 $a(OCoLC)859685937 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse10681 035 $a(DE-B1597)547145 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780814744871 035 $a(ODN)ODN0004021936 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000167783 100 $a20200623h19931993 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aCharles Dickens and the Image of Women /$fDavid K. Holbrook 210 1$aNew York, NY :$cNew York University Press,$d[1993] 210 4$dİ1993 215 $a1 online resource (210 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 08$a0-8147-3483-9 311 08$a0-8147-3528-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 177-179) and index. 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tIntroduction --$tCHAPTER ONE. Bleak House: The Dead Baby and the Psychic Inheritance --$tCHAPTER TWO. Religion, Sin, and Shame --$tCHAPTER THREE. Little Dorrit; Little Doormat --$tCHAPTER FOUR. At the Heart of the Marshalsea --$tCHAPTER FIVE. Great Expectations: A Radical Ambiguity about What One May Expect --$tCHAPTER SIX. Finding One Another's Reality: Lizzie Hexam and Her Love Story in Our Mutual Friend --$tCHAPTER SEVEN. Dickens's Own Relationships with Women --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aHow successful is Dickens in his portrayal of women? Dickens has been represented (along with William Blake and D.H. Lawrence) as one who championed the life of the emotions often associated with the "feminine." Yet some of his most important heroines are totally submissive and docile. Dickens, of course, had to accept the conventions of his time. It is obvious, argues Holbrook, that Dickens idealized the father-daughter relationship, and indeed, any such relationship that was unsexual, like that of Tom Pinch and his sister?but why? Why, for example, is the image of woman so often associated with death, as in Great Expectations? Dickens's own struggles over relationships with women have been documented, but much less has been said about the unconscious elements behind these problems. Using recent developments in psychoanalytic object-relations theory, David Holbrook offers new insight into the way in which the novels of Dickens?particularly Bleak House, Little Dorrit, and Great Expectations?both uphold emotional needs and at the same time represent the limits of his view of women and that of his time. 606 $aWomen and literature$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y19th century 615 0$aWomen and literature$xHistory 676 $a823/.8 700 $aHolbrook$b David K.$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01207671 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910213823703321 996 $aCharles Dickens and the Image of Women$92786044 997 $aUNINA