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The Semantics of Desire: Changing Models of Identity from Dickens to Joyce
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Full Title:
The Semantics of Desire: Changing Models of Identity from Dickens to Joyce
Contributors:
By (Author) Philip M. Weinstein
Series:
Publisher:
Princeton University Press
Imprint:
Princeton University Press
Publication Date:
23rd September 2014
Country:
United States
Classifications
Readership:
Tertiary Education
Genre:
Fiction/Non-fiction:
Non Fiction
Other Subjects:
Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900
Dewey:
823.809
Physical Properties
Physical Format:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
326
Dimensions:
Width 152mm, Height 229mm
Weight:
454g
Description
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, significa
