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Inaugural Wounds : The Shaping of Desire in Five Nineteenth-Century English Narratives.

Lougy, Robert E.

Inaugural Wounds : The Shaping of Desire in Five Nineteenth-Century English Narratives. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (214 pages)

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Insupportable Absence and the Writing of Desire -- 1 Martin Chuzzlewit -- 2 Exile and Desire in Thackeray's Notes of a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo -- 3 Death, Desire, and the Site of the Prostitute in Elizabeth Gaskell's Ruth -- 4 Entangled Desire -- 5 Yearning and Melancholia -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index.

9780821441657


English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
Psychoanalysis and literature -- England.
Desire in literature.


Electronic books.

PR868.P74 -- L68 2004eb

823/.809353

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