It is the most exciting book on Woolf to come along in some time. " Virginia Woolf and the Fictions of Psychoanalysis brings Woolf's extraordinary craftsmanship back into view the book combines powerful claims about sexual politics and intellectual history with the sort of meticulous, imaginative close reading that leaves us, simply, seeing much more in Woolf's words than we did before. It is the most exciting book on Woolf to come along in some time."-Lisa Ruddick, Modern Philology Chodorow, University of California at Berkeley It presents lively, controversial and critical discussions concerning such themes as the social constitution of gender the nature of sexual oppression the. In addition to transforming our understanding of Woolf, this book radically expands our understanding of the historicity and contingent construction of psychoanalytic theory and our vision of the potential of psychoanalytic feminism."-Nancy J. "A stunning, brilliant, absolutely compelling reading of Woolf through the lens of Kleinian and Freudian psychoanalytic debates about the primacy of maternality and paternality in the construction of consciousness, gender, politics, and the past, and of psychoanalysis through the lens of Woolf's novels and essays.
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His mother and family disapproved of their relationship, which always seemed on the brink of romance. (Both Ernest and his fictional counterpart, William, were engaged to London stenographers named Louisa "Gipsy" Denys.)įilling out the cast of important characters was Jessie Chambers, a neighbor with whom Lawrence developed an intense friendship, and who would become Miriam Leiver in the novel. The death by erysipelas of one of Lawrence's elder brothers, Ernest, and Lydia's grief and eventual obsession with Lawrence, seems hardly changed in the novel. Lydia became Gertrude Morel, the intellectually stifled, unhappy mother who lives through her sons. Walter Morel was modeled on Lawrence's hard-drinking, irresponsible collier father, Arthur. His childhood coal-mining town of Eastwood was changed, with a sardonic twist, to Bestwood. The roots of Sons and Lovers are clearly located in Lawrence's life. Lawrence reexamined his childhood, his relationship with his mother, and her psychological effect on his sexuality. The novel, which began as " Paul Morel," was sparked by the death of Lawrence's mother, Lydia. Lawrence's third published novel, Sons and Lovers (1913) is largely autobiographical. McCaffrey’s talents as a story-teller are best displayed. It is, however, in the handling of broader themes and the worlds of her imagination, particularly the two series The Ship Who Sang and the fourteen novels about the Dragonriders of Pern that Ms. Her first novel, Restoree, was written as a protest against the absurd and unrealistic portrayals of women in s-f novels in the 50s and early 60s. By the time the three children of her marriage were comfortably in school most of the day, she had already achieved enough success with short stories to devote full time to writing. 1952, Todd, b.1956, and Georgeanne, b.1959.Īnne McCaffrey’s first story was published by Sam Moskowitz in Science Fiction + Magazine and her first novel was published by Ballantine Books in 1967. She married in 1950 and had three children: Alec Anthony, b. Her working career included Liberty Music Shops and Helena Rubinstein (1947-1952). She had two brothers: Hugh McCaffrey (deceased 1988), Major US Army, and Kevin Richard McCaffrey, still living.Īnne was educated at Stuart Hall in Staunton Virginia, Montclair High School in Montclair, New Jersey, and graduated cum laude from Radcliffe College, majoring in Slavonic Languages and Literatures. Her parents were George Herbert McCaffrey, BA, MA PhD (Harvard), Colonel USA Army (retired), and Anne Dorothy McElroy McCaffrey, estate agent. Anne McCaffrey was born on April 1st, 1926, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. |