| Description |
xii, 356 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Compulsion versus reparation -- From mother to father -- Mourning and creative-process reparation -- Creative women and the internal father -- The demon lover theme as literary myth and psychodynamic complex -- Portraits of two kinds of creative women -- Charlotte Brontë: biography and Jane Eyre -- Villette -- Emily Brontë I: the messenger of hope and the demon in the nightwind -- Emily Brontë II: Wuthering Heights and the demon lover -- Emily Dickinson: muse and demon -- Emily Dickinson's breakdown: renunciation and reparation -- Edith Sitwell I: the demon lover, poetry, and writer's block -- Edith Sitwell II: the aging narcissist -- The turn to psychoanalytic psychotherapy |
| Analysis |
English fiction Authors Women |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-346) and index |
| Subject |
Brontë, Charlotte, 1816-1855.
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Brontë, Emily, 1818-1848.
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Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886.
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Sitwell, Edith, 1887-1964.
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Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) -- Psychological aspects.
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Women authors -- Mental health.
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Women authors -- Psychology.
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Famous Persons.
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Authorship.
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Creativity.
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Women -- psychology.
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| LC no. |
92041916 |
| ISBN |
0415907101 (hb) |
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041590711X (pb) |
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