Monsters of Affection: Dickens, Eliot, & Bronte on Fatherhood |
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Page 26
... death of his wife and child ; after his release , he refuses to save the life of his father - in - law's only son and with his accidental patrimony , hounds his father - in - law to death for debt.27 In both of these tales , Dickens ...
... death of his wife and child ; after his release , he refuses to save the life of his father - in - law's only son and with his accidental patrimony , hounds his father - in - law to death for debt.27 In both of these tales , Dickens ...
Page 62
... death . " In weeping for his alienated heart , " Florence imagines , " she might stir the spirits of the dead against him ” ( 311-18 ) . Florence's unconscious recreation of tri- angular desire , her evocation or invitation of a third ...
... death . " In weeping for his alienated heart , " Florence imagines , " she might stir the spirits of the dead against him ” ( 311-18 ) . Florence's unconscious recreation of tri- angular desire , her evocation or invitation of a third ...
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... death and her desire to institu- tionalize Bardo's library spring from her unspoken wish to live happily alone with Tito - and therefore clearly without her father . Like Tito , Romola metaphorically wishes her father dead . Romola's ...
... death and her desire to institu- tionalize Bardo's library spring from her unspoken wish to live happily alone with Tito - and therefore clearly without her father . Like Tito , Romola metaphorically wishes her father dead . Romola's ...
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Authors of Being | 10 |
A Sort of Father | 65 |
Masters and Mastery | 119 |
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