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Author Gelpi, Barbara Charlesworth

Title Shelley's goddess : maternity, language, subjectivity / Barbara Charlesworth Gelpi
Published New York : Oxford University Press, 1992

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 311 pages) : illustrations
Series OUP E-Books
Contents The Nurse's Soul -- Infancy Narratives -- The Lacanian-Kristevan Narrative -- The Interpersonal Narrative -- Her Destined Sphere -- Maternity Eroticized -- The Mother-Educator -- The Mother God(dess) -- Queen of the Field Place Hive -- Strategies of Infant Desire -- A Mother-Son Alliance -- Comus at Field Place -- Re-Membering the Mother -- Seeing Through Mirrors (Prometheus Unbound, Act I) -- The Source of Desire Seeks the End of Desire (Prometheus Unbound, Act II) -- The Gaze of Soul-Making (Scene i) -- The Caverns of Thought (Scenes i and ii) -- Ritual Descent (Scenes iii and iv) -- Prometheus/Adonis and the Mother Goddess (Scene v) -- "Where the Split Began" (Prometheus Unbound, Act III) -- The Rape of Thetis (Scene i) -- Utopian Paradigms (Scene ii) -- Mother and Son (Scene iii) -- The Dipsas of Desire (Scene iv)
Summary Gelpi examines the importance of the mother-infant relationship in Percy Bysshe Shelley's poetry and life. Her book also uses Shelley as a touchstone by which to examine the rich historical and theoretical issues relevant to motherhood in the Romantic period
Analysis English poetry
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 274-287) and index
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Subject Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822 -- Criticism and interpretation
SUBJECT Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822. fast (OCoLC)fst00035250
Shelley, Percy Bysshe. swd
Subject Mother and child in literature.
Psychoanalysis and literature.
Subjectivity in literature.
Motherhood in literature.
Infants in literature.
POETRY -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Infants in literature.
Mother and child in literature.
Motherhood in literature.
Psychoanalysis and literature.
Subjectivity in literature.
Mutter
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Psychoanalyse
Moederschap.
Genre/Form Electronic books
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
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