Death and Mother Dickens to Freud

A work of literary criticism examining why so many Victorian novels feature mothers who are dead, missing or failing, despite the era's idealisation of motherhood. Carolyn Dever reads fiction by Dickens, Collins, Eliot and Woolf alongside Darwin and the psychoanalytic writing of Freud, Klein and Winnicott. She argues that maternal loss is central to how both the novels and the theories imagine family, gender and identity. It suits students and readers of Victorian literature, gender studies and psychoanalytic criticism.

The book has light wear to the laminated cover and spine, and there is noticeable foxing on the front endpaper and opening page, particularly along the gutter. See photos