Monstrous Kinships: Realism and Attachment Theory in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Novel

by Jillmarie Murphy

Monstrous Kinships is a study investigating the connection between realist fiction of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and the psychoanalytic approach of John Bowlby's attachment theory. Combining personal experience with the creative impulse, Shelley's Frankenstein, Melville's Pierre, Hardy's Jude the Obscure, Crane's Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, and Dreiser's An American Tragedy exposed the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1611490502
• ISBN13: 9781611490503
• Release Date: September 2011
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"