Narcissistic Mothers in Modernist Literature
New Perspectives on Motherhood in the Works of D.H. Lawrence, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, and Jean Rhys
Narcissistic mothers are an important motif in modernist literature. Tracing its appearance in the works of writers such as D.H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf, this book questions the dichotomous image of either benevolent or suffocating mother, which has pervaded religion, art and literature for centuries. Instead of focusing on the mother-child dyad as characterized primarily by maternal domination and the child' s submission, Marie Géraldine Rademacher insists on the definitional nuances of the term »narcissism« and considers the political and socio-economic context of the time in shaping these women's narcissistic behavior. The study thus inspires a more positive (re)reading of the protagonists.
Kapitel-Übersicht
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Acknowledgments
Seiten 7 - 8 -
1/ An Overview of Motherhood
Seiten 9 - 14 -
2. Disentangling Notions
Seiten 15 - 42 -
3. A Mother's Vision and Love in D.H. Lawrence's Sons and Lovers
Seiten 43 - 76 -
4. Mothers and Social Criticism in James Joyce's Dubliners
Seiten 77 - 104 -
5. A Mother's 'Divided Self' in Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse
Seiten 105 - 132 -
6. "I'm a Cérébrale": A Mother's Isolation and Marginalization in Jean Rhys' Good Morning, Midnight
Seiten 133 - 162 -
7. From Modernism to Contemporary Literature: A Timeless Debate
Seiten 163 - 168 -
Works Cited
Seiten 169 - 178
9. September 2019, 178 Seiten
ISBN: 978-3-8376-4966-6
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