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  1. Charles Dickens and the image of woman
    Author: Holbrook, David
    Published: 1993
    Publisher:  New York Univ. Press, New York u.a.

    How successful is Dickens in his portrayal of women? Dickens has been represented (along with William Blake and D. H. Lawrence) as one who championed the life of the emotions that belong to the "feminine." Yet some of his most important heroines are... more

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    Universitätsbibliothek Bayreuth
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    Universitätsbibliothek Eichstätt-Ingolstadt
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    Universitätsbibliothek Erlangen-Nürnberg, Hauptbibliothek
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    How successful is Dickens in his portrayal of women? Dickens has been represented (along with William Blake and D. H. Lawrence) as one who championed the life of the emotions that belong to the "feminine." Yet some of his most important heroines are simply bearers of the household keys and the basket of domesticity or are totally submissive and docile. Dickens, of course, had to accept the conventions of his time. Clearly the Victorian problem - which was man's problem as much as it was woman's - was that of bringing the ideal woman and the libidinal woman together. It is obvious, argues Holbrook, that Dickens idealized the father-daughter relationship, and indeed, any such relationship that was unsexual, like that of Tom Pinch and his sister, but why? And why, for example, is the image of woman so often associated with death, as in Great Expectations? Dickens's own struggles over relationships with women have been documented, but much less has been said about the unconscious elements behind these problems. Using recent developments in psychoanalytic object-relations theory, David Holbrook offers new insight into the way in which the novels of Dickens - particularly Bleak House, Little Dorrit, and Great Expectations - both uphold emotional needs and at the same time represent the limitations of this view of women and that of his time. Holbrook pays tribute to Stephen Marcus's observation that Dickens was haunted by the Primal Scene and expands this diagnosis, suggesting how Dickens's residual dread about sexual intercourse deformed all Dickens's dealings with female characters, despite his eminent goodwill and delight in the image of woman.

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 0814734839
    RVK Categories: HL 2580 ; HL 2585
    Subjects: Vrouwen; Frau; Geschichte; Women and literature; Frau; Sexualität; Frau <Motiv>
    Other subjects: Dickens, Charles <1812-1870>; Dickens, Charles (1812-1870)
    Scope: 194 S.
  2. Sylvia Plath
    Poetry and existence
    Author: Holbrook, David
    Published: 1976
    Publisher:  Athlone Pr., London

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    Universitätsbibliothek Augsburg
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    Language: English
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    ISBN: 0485111438
    RVK Categories: HU 4731
    Subjects: Geschichte; Psychologie; Wissen; Poetry; Psychoanalysis and literature; Women and literature; Lyrik
    Other subjects: Plath, Sylvia; Plath, Sylvia (1932-1963)
    Scope: 308 S.
  3. Charles Dickens and the image of woman
    Author: Holbrook, David
    Published: ©1993 (2013)
    Publisher:  New York University Press, New York

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    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden / Hochschulbibliothek Amberg
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  4. Sylvia Plath
    Poetry and existence
    Author: Holbrook, David
    Published: 1976
    Publisher:  Athlone Pr., London

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    Freie Universität Berlin, Universitätsbibliothek
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    Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Haus Unter den Linden
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    Source: Philologische Bibliothek, FU Berlin; Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 0485111438
    RVK Categories: HU 4731
    Subjects: Geschichte; Psychologie; Wissen; Poetry; Psychoanalysis and literature; Women and literature; Lyrik
    Other subjects: Plath, Sylvia; Plath, Sylvia (1932-1963)
    Scope: 308 S.
  5. Charles Dickens and the image of woman
    Author: Holbrook, David
    Published: 1993
    Publisher:  New York Univ. Press, New York u.a.

    How successful is Dickens in his portrayal of women? Dickens has been represented (along with William Blake and D. H. Lawrence) as one who championed the life of the emotions that belong to the "feminine." Yet some of his most important heroines are... more

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    Freie Universität Berlin, Universitätsbibliothek
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    How successful is Dickens in his portrayal of women? Dickens has been represented (along with William Blake and D. H. Lawrence) as one who championed the life of the emotions that belong to the "feminine." Yet some of his most important heroines are simply bearers of the household keys and the basket of domesticity or are totally submissive and docile. Dickens, of course, had to accept the conventions of his time. Clearly the Victorian problem - which was man's problem as much as it was woman's - was that of bringing the ideal woman and the libidinal woman together. It is obvious, argues Holbrook, that Dickens idealized the father-daughter relationship, and indeed, any such relationship that was unsexual, like that of Tom Pinch and his sister, but why? And why, for example, is the image of woman so often associated with death, as in Great Expectations? Dickens's own struggles over relationships with women have been documented, but much less has been said about the unconscious elements behind these problems. Using recent developments in psychoanalytic object-relations theory, David Holbrook offers new insight into the way in which the novels of Dickens - particularly Bleak House, Little Dorrit, and Great Expectations - both uphold emotional needs and at the same time represent the limitations of this view of women and that of his time. Holbrook pays tribute to Stephen Marcus's observation that Dickens was haunted by the Primal Scene and expands this diagnosis, suggesting how Dickens's residual dread about sexual intercourse deformed all Dickens's dealings with female characters, despite his eminent goodwill and delight in the image of woman.

     
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    Source: Philologische Bibliothek, FU Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 0814734839
    RVK Categories: HL 2580 ; HL 2585
    Subjects: Vrouwen; Frau; Geschichte; Women and literature; Frau; Sexualität; Frau <Motiv>
    Other subjects: Dickens, Charles <1812-1870>; Dickens, Charles (1812-1870)
    Scope: 194 S.