The Semantics of Desire ：Changing Models of Identity from Dickens to Joyce ( Princeton Legacy Library )

Publication subTitle ：Changing Models of Identity from Dickens to Joyce

Publication series ：Princeton Legacy Library

Author： Weinstein Philip M.;;;  

Publisher： Princeton University Press‎

Publication year： 2014

E-ISBN: 9781400857395

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780691065946

Subject： I Literature;I06 Literature, Literature Appreciation;I1 World Literature

Keyword： 文学,世界文学

Language： ENG

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This work examines the dialectic of desire and value, as it affects the protagonist's identity, in fiction from Dickens and George Eliot through Hardy and Conrad to Lawrence and Joyce. Philip Weinstein describes the growing sexualization of the imagined body--the transformation of the protagonistic self from a figure defined by semantics, signification, and cultural value to one characterized by desire, force, and natural impulse.

Originally published in 1984.

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Chapter

Cover

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

A Note on Bibliographical Procedures and Primary Texts

Introduction

Part 1. Mid-Victorian: Constraints and Masquerades

1. The Nocturnal Dickens

A Palimpsest of Motives in David Copperfield

Enigmas of Power and Impotence: Little Dorrit

2. George Eliot and the Idolatries of the Superego

Body Bruised to Pleasure Soul: The Mill on the Floss

"A Great Deal of Slow Poisoning": Daniel Deronda

Part 2. Late-Victorian: Tragic Encounters

3. Hardy: "Full-Hearted Evensong"

"We Are All Children of the Soil": Tess of the D'urbervilles

"The Spirit Unappeased and Peregrine": Jude the Obscure

4. Conrad: Against Nature

"Nothing Can Touch Me": Lord Jim

Fictions of Discourse, Purpose, and Identity in Nostromo

Part 3. Modernist: Beginning the Revaluation

5. "Become Who You Are": The Optative World of D. H. Lawrence

"The Trembling Instability" of Women in Love

Choosing Between the Quick and the Dead: Three Versions of Lady Chatterley's Lover

6. New Heaven, New Earth: Joyce and the Art of Reprojection

Afterword

List of Works Cited

Index

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