Literature, Science, Psychoanalysis, 1830-1970: Essays in Honour of Gillian BeerHelen Small, Trudi Tate This book presents fourteen new essays by leading British and American writers on literature, science, and psychoanalysis. Written in honour of Gillian Beer, the collection pays homage to her major contribution to the theory and practice of interdisciplinary studies, with particular emphasis on the evolutionary sciences in nineteenth-century Britain, on psychoanalysis from Freud through to the late 1930s, and on the cultural contexts of science in the first half of the twentieth century. |
Contents
Alexander von Humbolt and | 13 |
And If It Be a Pretty Woman All the BetterDarwin | 37 |
Ordering Creation or Maybe Not 52 122 | 52 |
Henry Buckle Thomas Hardy and | 64 |
The Psychology of Childhood in Victorian Literature | 86 |
A Freudian Curiosity | 102 |
Beyond the Pleasure Principle | 118 |
On Not Being Able to Sleep | 131 |
Brownie Sharpe and the Stuff of Dreams | 145 |
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Dickens, Family, Authorship: Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Kinship and ... Lynn Cain Limited preview - 2008 |