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Charles Dickens and the Image of Women

By: David Holbrook

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Hardcover | 3 March 1993

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How successful is Dickens in his portrayal of women? Dickens has been represented (along with William Blake and D.H. Lawrence) as one who championed the life of the emotions often associated with the "feminine." Yet some of his most important heroines are totally submissive and docile.
Dickens, of course, had to accept the conventions of his time. It is obvious, argues Holbrook, that Dickens idealized the father-daughter relationship, and indeed, any such relationship that was unsexual, like that of Tom Pinch and his sister—but why? Why, for example, is the image of woman so often associated with death, as in Great Expectations? Dickens's own struggles over relationships with women have been documented, but much less has been said about the unconscious elements behind these problems.
Using recent developements in psychoanalytic object-relations theory, David Holbrook offers new insight into the way in which the novels of Dickens—particularly Bleak House, Little Dorrit, and Great Expectations—both uphold emotional needs and at the same time represent the limits of his view of women and that of his time.

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Non-Fiction Society & Culture Social Groups Gender Studies Gender Studies: Women and Girls Literature, Poetry & Plays History & Criticism of Literature Literary Studies of Fiction General Literary Studies Literary Studies from 1800 to 1900

Introduction	p. 1
Bleak House: The Dead Baby and the Psychic Inheritance	p. 27
Religion, Sin, and Shame	p. 55
Little Dorrit, Little Doormat	p. 70
At the Heart of the Marshalsea	p. 83
Great Expectations: A Radical Ambiguity about What One May Expect	p. 126
Finding One Another's Reality: Lizzie Hexam and Her Love Story in Our Mutual Friend	p. 147
Dickens's Own Relationships with Women	p. 164
Bibliography	p. 177
Index	p. 181
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