Transformation of Rage

Mourning and Creativity in George Eliot's Fiction

Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism
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Author: Peggy Fitzhugh Johnstone ISBN: 9780814743201
Publisher: NYU Press Publication: October 1, 1994
Imprint: NYU Press Language: English
Author: Peggy Fitzhugh Johnstone
ISBN: 9780814743201
Publisher: NYU Press
Publication: October 1, 1994
Imprint: NYU Press
Language: English

George Eliot has been widely praised both for the richness of her prose and the universality of her themes. In this compelling study, Peggy Fitzhugh Johnstone goes beyond these traditional foci to examine the role of aggression in Eliot's fiction and to find its source in the author's unconscious sense of loss stemming from traumatic family separations and deaths during her childhood and adolescence. Johnstone demonstrates that Eliot's creative work was a constructive response to her sense of loss and that the repeating patterns in her novels reflect the process of release from her state of mourning for lost loved ones.

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George Eliot has been widely praised both for the richness of her prose and the universality of her themes. In this compelling study, Peggy Fitzhugh Johnstone goes beyond these traditional foci to examine the role of aggression in Eliot's fiction and to find its source in the author's unconscious sense of loss stemming from traumatic family separations and deaths during her childhood and adolescence. Johnstone demonstrates that Eliot's creative work was a constructive response to her sense of loss and that the repeating patterns in her novels reflect the process of release from her state of mourning for lost loved ones.

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