Death and the Mother from Dickens to Freud

by Carolyn Dever

Book Overview

The cultural ideal of motherhood in Victorian Britain seems to be undermined by Victorian novels, which almost always represent mothers as incapacitated, abandoning or dead. Carolyn Dever argues that... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521032555
• ISBN13: 9780521032551
• Release Date: November 2006
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"