Narcissistic Mothers in Modernist Literature : : New Perspectives on Motherhood in the Works of D.H. Lawrence, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, and Jean Rhys / / Marie Géraldine Rademacher.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus eBook-Package 2019
• VerfasserIn: Rademacher, Marie Géraldine,
• Place / Publishing House: Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag, , [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Lettre
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (178 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; 1/ An Overview of Motherhood --; 2. Disentangling Notions --; 3. A Mother's Vision and Love in D.H. Lawrence's Sons and Lovers --; 4. Mothers and Social Criticism in James Joyce's Dubliners --; 5. A Mother's 'Divided Self' in Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse --; 6. "I'm a Cérébrale": A Mother's Isolation and Marginalization in Jean Rhys' Good Morning, Midnight --; 7. From Modernism to Contemporary Literature: A Timeless Debate --; Works Cited
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783839449660; 9783110719567; 9783110610765; 9783110664232; 9783110610369; 9783110606348; 9783110662771
• DOI: 10.1515/9783839449660?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Marie Géraldine Rademacher.

Narcissistic mothers are an important motif in modernist literature. Tracing its appearance in the works of writers such as D.H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf, this book questions the dichotomous image of either benevolent or suffocating mother, which has pervaded religion, art and literature for centuries. Instead of focusing on the mother-child dyad as characterized primarily by maternal domination and the child' s submission, Marie Géraldine Rademacher insists on the definitional nuances of the term »narcissism« and considers the political and socio-economic context of the time in shaping these women's narcissistic behavior. The study thus inspires a more positive (re-)reading of the protagonists.