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From the Introduction by author: Love, Rivalry, and the Unconscious
Jane Austen's novels have been praised by the literary critics, loved by the 'ordinary reader', and made into many films (Southam, 1967; Wiltshire, 2001). Psychoanalytic readings of the six great novels elaborate Austen's famous description of her 'subject' to her niece Anna. "You are now collecting your People delightfully, getting them exactly into such a spot as is the delight of my life;-3 or 4 Families in a Country Village is the very thing to work on' (Le Faye, 2011, p. 287). Austen's plots and language dramatize the love and mutual identifications, the jealousy and competitive strivings of family life as young women and men fall in love and marry. Austen's narrative method, free indirect discourse, presents the conflicted feelings and impulses of her heroines and heroes, as they separate from their families, relive early sibling and oedipal rivalries, and form attachments outside the family.
Author: Margaret Ann Fitzpatrick-Hanly
Publisher: Ipbooks
Published: 12/15/2018
Pages: 216
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.46d
ISBN13: 9781949093087
ISBN10: 1949093085
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | General
- Psychology | Applied Psychology