Frances L Restuccia

Melancholics in Love

Representing Womenos Depression and Domestic Abuse

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Produktbeschreibung

Drawing from a wide spectrum of literary and autobiographical texts from the past and present, such as Jane Austen's Emma and Tina Turner 's I, Tina, Frances L. Restuccia moves from a psychoanalytic explanation of the formation of women melancholics to the cultural co-construction of battered women.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Seitenzahl: 168
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Februar 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 227mm x 149mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 254g
• ISBN-13: 9780847698295
• ISBN-10: 0847698297
• Artikelnr.: 22411468

Autorenporträt

Frances L. Restuccia is associate professor of contemporary literary and cultural theory, English, and women's studies at Boston College.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 1 "A Black Morning" in Jane Austen'sEmma
Chapter 3 2 Mortification: Beyond the Persuasion Principle Chapter 4 3
Tales of Beauty: Brookner's, Atwood's, and Drabble's "Feminine Symbolic"
Chapter 5 4 Conjurings: Mourning and Abjection inStory of O andReturn to
the Château Chapter 6 5 Redirecting Spectacles of Domestic Woman Abuse:I,
Tina andDefending Our Lives Chapter 7 6 Literary Representations of
Battered Women: Spectacular Domestic Punishment Chapter 8 Afterword Chapter
9 Bibliography Chapter 10 Index Chapter 11 About the Author