The Sensitive Son and the Feminine Ideal in Literature: Writers from Rousseau to Roth

by Myron Tuman

Book Overview

This book considers major male writers from the last three centuries whose relation to a strong, often distant woman--one sometimes modeled on their own mother--forms the romantic core of their greatest narratives. Myron Tuman explores the theory that there is an underlying psychological type, the sensitive son, connecting these otherwise diverse writers. The volume starts and ends with Jean-Jacques Rousseau, whose Confessions provides an...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030157032
• ISBN13: 9783030157036
• Release Date: May 2019
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 269 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.3"