Jillmarie Murphy: 3 books
Attachment, Place, and Otherness in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
New Materialist Representations
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2018
This interdisciplinary study examines the role interpersonal and place attachment bonds play in crafting a national identity in American literature. Although there have been numerous ecocritical studies of and psychoanalytic approaches to American literature, this study seeks to integrate the language...
Victorian Ecocriticism
The Politics of Place and Early Environmental Justice
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
Victorian Ecocriticism: The Politics of Place and Early Environmental Justice aims to take up the challenge that Lawrence Buell lays out in The Future of Environmental Criticism: Environmental Crisis and Literary Imagination (2005). Buell decries: “For in order to bring ‘environmental justice...
Monstrous Kinships
Realism and Attachment Theory in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Novel
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2011
Monstrous Kinships: Realism and Attachment Theory in the Novels of Mary Shelley, Herman Melville, Thomas Hardy, Stephen Crane, Theodore Dreiser, and Vladimir Nabokov investigates the connection between realist fiction of the nineteenth and early twentieth century and the psychoanalytic approach of...