Rank and Gender -- Work and Time -- 'We are in a manner marked' -- A Modern Electra -- 'The impertinence of manhood' -- 'Bridget and I should be ever playing'
Summary
This work examines the lives and works of Charles and Mary Lamb, using feminist and psychoanalytic literary theory. The book argues that their childhood and work experiences and the role of madness and matricide in their lives separated them from the Romantic spirit of their time
