Transformation of Rage
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Transformation of Rage

Mourning and Creativity in George Eliot's Fiction

Peggy Fitzhugh Johnstone

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Transformation of Rage

Mourning and Creativity in George Eliot's Fiction

Peggy Fitzhugh Johnstone

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George Eliot has been widely praised both for the richness of her prose and the universality of her themes. In this compelling study, Peggy Fitzhugh Johnstone goes beyond these traditional foci to examine the role of aggression in Eliot's fiction and to find its source in the author's unconscious sense of loss stemming from traumatic family separations and deaths during her childhood and adolescence. Johnstone demonstrates that Eliot's creative work was a constructive response to her sense of loss and that the repeating patterns in her novels reflect the process of release from her state of mourning for lost loved ones.

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Publisher
NYU Press
Year
1994
ISBN
9780814743201

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Adam Bede, 3, 21, 22, 24–40, 41, 42, 43, 76–77, 86, 94, 105–6, 133, 183, 186, 187
"Address to Working Men," 123
Aggression, 2, 183–84
Bowlby on, 11
and characters in Bede, 29, 30–31, 32–34, 35–38, 184
Felix, 118–19, 184,
Mamer, 72, 73, 184,
Middlemarch, 146, 184,
Mill, 43–46, 48–59, 184,
Romola, 90, 92, 93, 96, 98, 99, 100, 106, 107, 184
and Eliot, 2, 26, 39, 66–67, 110, 124, 129
Kernberg on, 8, 92, 107
Kohut on, 9, 27, 45. See also Eliot, George, aggression/rage; Rage
Anniversary reaction, 3–4, 18, 70, 77, 81, 109, 126, 129, 188, 190, 191–92
Anxiety, 11, 71, 72, 73, 77, 80, 87, 109, 128, 185, 190. See also Separation anxiety
"Armgart," 155
Attachment, 3, 6, 10, 184. See also Bowlby, John
Attachment figure, 10, 71
Attachment theorists, 6
Bain, Alexander, 1
Blackwood, John (editor and publisher), and Bede, 24, 25
and Deronda, 159, 160, 178
and Felix, 112
and Magazine, 123
and Marner, 69, 87
and Mid-dlemarch, 133
and Mill, 41, 42
and Scenes, 19–21
and Theophrastus, 181–82
Bowlby, John, 3, 4, 10–11, 70, 79, 184, 185
on reactions to loss, 77, 80, 83, 108–9, 129, 192. See also Attachment; Loss; Separation Brabant, Robert, 62, 189
Bray, Charles and Cara, friendship with Eliot, 15–17, 62–63, 66, 76, 82, 124–25, 186,189
"Brother and Sister Sonnets," 22, 154
"Brother Jacob," 22
Chapman, John: editor of Westminster Review, 16–18, 63, 65, 109
relationship with Eliot, 16, 64, 107, 125, 186, 189
Chessick, Richard D., 92, 98, 100, 101
Christian Observer, 14
Comhill Magaz...

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