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Transformation of Rage: Mourning and Creativity in George Eliot´s Fiction
Peggy Fitzhugh Johnstone
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Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSBF; DSK; JMAF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 151 x 14. Weight in Grams: 295.
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 ... Read more
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Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780814742358
SKU
V9780814742358
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99-50
About Peggy Fitzhugh Johnstone
Peggy Fitzhugh Johnstone is an independent scholar in Saratoga Springs, New York. She has published essays on George Eliot in Hartford Studies, Literature and Psychology, and Mosaic.
Reviews for Transformation of Rage: Mourning and Creativity in George Eliot´s Fiction
Johnstone's description of the tumultuous events in George Eliot's work is an excellent illustration of applied psychoanalysis.
George H. Pollock, M.D., Ph.D.
Psychoanalytic Books
George H. Pollock, M.D., Ph.D.
Psychoanalytic Books