1st Edition

Dickens, Family, Authorship Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Kinship and Creativity

By Lynn Cain Copyright 2008
202 Pages
by Routledge

202 Pages
by Routledge

202 Pages
by Routledge

Drawing on a wide range of Dickens's writings, including all of his novels and a selection of his letters, journalism, and shorter fiction, Dickens, Family, Authorship provides a provocative account of the evolution of an author from whose psychological honesty and imaginative generosity emerged precocious fictional portents of Freudian and post-Freudian theory. The decade 1843-1853 was pivotal... Read more
Contents: Foreword; Introduction; Martin Chuzzlewit; Dombey and Son; David Copperfield; Bleak House; Bibliography; Index.

Biography

Lynn Cain is a former editor of Stand literary magazine and founding editor of Arts Research Digest.