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The Burdens of Intimacy
Christopher Lane
其他書名
Psychoanalysis and Victorian Masculinity
出版University of Chicago Press, 1999
主題Language Arts & Disciplines / ReferenceLiterary Criticism / GeneralLiterary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, WelshLiterary Criticism / LGBTQLiterary Criticism / Women AuthorsLiterary Criticism / Subjects & Themes / GeneralLiterary Criticism / Subjects & Themes / Gender IdentityLiterary Criticism / Subjects & Themes / Love & Erotica
ISBN02264685939780226468594
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=cRQy7FxU3VgC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋Why does passion bewilder and torment so many Victorian protagonists? And why do so many literary characters experience moments of ecstasy before their deaths? In this original study, Christopher Lane shows why Victorian fiction conveys both the pleasure and anguish of intimacy. Examining works by Bulwer-Lytton, Swinburne, Schreiner, Hardy, James, Santayana, and Forster, he argues that these writers struggled with aspects of psychology that were undermining the utilitarian ethos of the Victorian age.

Lane discredits the conservative notion that Victorian literature expresses only a demand for repression and moral restraint. But he also refutes historicist and Foucauldian approaches, arguing that they dismiss the very idea of repression and end up denouncing psychoanalysis as complicit in various kinds of oppression. These approaches, Lane argues, reduce Victorian literature to a drama about politics, power, and the ego. Striving instead to reinvigorate discussions of fantasy and the unconscious, Lane offers a clear, often startling account of writers who grapple with the genuine complexities of love, desire, and friendship.