The Semantics of Desire : : Changing Models of Identity from Dickens to Joyce / / Philip M. Weinstein.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999
• VerfasserIn: Weinstein, Philip M.,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]; ©1984
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Edition: Course Book
• Language: English
• Series: Princeton Legacy Library ; 520
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (326 p.)

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.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Bibliographical Procedures and Primary Texts -- Contents -- Introduction -- PART ONE. Mid-Victorian: Constraints and Masquerades -- Introduction -- Chapter One. The Nocturnal Dickens -- Chapter Two. George Eliot and the Idolatries of the Superego -- PART TWO. Late-Victorian: Tragic Encounters -- Introduction -- Chapter Three. Hardy: "Full-Hearted Evensong" -- Chapter Four. Conrad: Against Nature -- PART THREE. Modernist: Beginning the Revaluation -- Introduction -- Chapter Five. "Become Who You Are": The Optative World of D. H. Lawrence -- Chapter Six. New Heaven, New Earth: Joyce and the Art of Reprojection -- Afterword -- List of Works Cited -- Index