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