Shelley's Goddess : Maternity, Language, Subjectivity.
Title:
Shelley's Goddess : Maternity, Language, Subjectivity.
Author:
Gelpi, Barbara Charlesworth.
ISBN:
9781601298690
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (332 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Abbreviations -- 1. Infancy Narratives -- The Lacanian-Kristevan Narrative -- The Interpersonal Narrative -- Notes -- 2. Her Destined Sphere -- Maternity Eroticized -- The Mother-Educator -- The Mother God(dess) -- Notes -- 3. Queen of the Field Place Hive -- Strategies of Infant Desire -- A Mother-Son Alliance -- Comus at Field Place -- Notes -- 4. Seeing Through Mirrors (Prometheus Unbound, Act I) -- Notes -- 5. The Source of Desire Seeks the End of Desire (Prometheus Unbound, Act II) -- The Gaze of Soul-Making (Scene i) -- The Caverns of Thought (Scenes i and ii) -- Ritual Descent (Scenes iii and iv) -- Prometheus/Adonis and the Mother Goddess (Scene v) -- Notes -- 6. "Where the Split Began" (Prometheus Unbound, Act III) -- The Rape of Thetis (Scene i) -- Utopian Paradigms (Scene ii) -- Mother and Son (Scene iii) -- The Dipsas of Desire (Scene iv) -- Notes -- Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Abstract:
The subject of Gelpi's new book is the importance of the mother-infant relationship in Percy Bysshe Shelly's poetry and life. However, her book also uses Shelley as a touchstone by which to examine the rich historical and theoretical issues relevant to motherhood in the Romantic period. Gelpi offers a detailed account of the historical rise in attention paid to mothering, the changing cultural attitudes towards the role of the mother, and the resulting effect on the nature of family life. She further discusses the psychoanalytic, Marxist, and developmental approaches to the mother/infant relationship, particularly to the connection each makes between that relationship and the acquisition of language. By combining psychoanalytic, poststructuralist and feminist theory with extensive biographical material on Shelley and information on the position of mothers in England after 1790, Gelpi offers an important reassessment of Shelley's avowed feminism and the failure of his utopian vision.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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