TY - BOOK AU - Dever,Carolyn TI - Death and the mother from Dickens to Freud: Victorian fiction and the anxiety of origins T2 - Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture SN - 0511003617 AV - PR878.M69 D48 1998eb U1 - 823/.8093520431 21 PY - 1998/// CY - Cambridge, New York PB - Cambridge University Press KW - English fiction KW - 19th century KW - History and criticism KW - Mothers in literature KW - Psychoanalysis and literature KW - Great Britain KW - History KW - Literature and society KW - Women and literature KW - Psychological fiction, English KW - Maternal deprivation in literature KW - Motherhood in literature KW - Sex role in literature KW - Death in literature KW - Roman anglais KW - 19e siècle KW - Histoire et critique KW - Mères dans la littérature KW - Psychanalyse et littérature KW - Grande-Bretagne KW - Histoire KW - Littérature et société KW - Femmes et littérature KW - Carence maternelle dans la littérature KW - Maternité dans la littérature KW - Rôle selon le sexe dans la littérature KW - Mort dans la littérature KW - LITERARY CRITICISM KW - European KW - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh KW - bisacsh KW - fast KW - Victoriaanse tijd KW - gtt KW - Fictie KW - Dood KW - Moeders KW - English KW - hilcc KW - Languages & Literatures KW - English Literature KW - Electronic books KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-229) and index; The lady vanishes -- Psychoanalytic cannibalism -- Broken mirror, broken wor-s: Bleak house -- Wilkie Collins and the secret of the mother's plot -- Denial, displacement, Deronda -- Calling Dr. Darwin --Virginia Woolf's "Victorian novel." N2 - The cultural ideal of motherhood in Victorian Britain seems to be undermined by Victorian novels, which almost always represent mothers as incapacitated, abandoning or dead. Carolyn Dever argues that the phenomenon of the dead or missing mother in Victorian narrative is central to the construction of the good mother as a cultural ideal. Maternal loss is the prerequisite for Victorian representations of domestic life, a fact which has especially complex implications for women. When Freud constructs psychoanalytical models of family, gender and desire, he too assumes that domesticity begins with the death of the mother. Analysing texts by Dickens, Collins, Eliot, Darwin and Woolf, as well as Freud, Klein and Winnicott, Dever argues that fictional and theoretical narratives alike use maternal absence to articulate concerns about gender and representation. Psychoanalysis has long been used to analyse Victorian fiction; Dever contends that Victorian fiction has much to teach us about psychoanalysis UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=55249 ER -