TY - BOOK AU - Rademacher,Marie Géraldine TI - Narcissistic Mothers in Modernist Literature: New Perspectives on Motherhood in the Works of D.H. Lawrence, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, and Jean Rhys T2 - Lettre SN - 9783839449660 AV - PN56.5.M67 R33 2019 U1 - 809.933520431 23 PY - 2019///] CY - Bielefeld PB - transcript Verlag KW - Motherhood in literature KW - Narcissism in literature KW - British Studies KW - Gender Studies KW - General Literature Studies KW - Literary Studies KW - Literature KW - Modernism KW - Motherhood KW - Psychoanalysis KW - Self-Love KW - Twentieth Century KW - LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh KW - bisacsh N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; 1/ An Overview of Motherhood --; 2. Disentangling Notions --; 3. A Mother’s Vision and Love in D.H. Lawrence’s Sons and Lovers --; 4. Mothers and Social Criticism in James Joyce’s Dubliners --; 5. A Mother’s ‘Divided Self’ in Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse --; 6. “I’m a Cérébrale”: A Mother’s Isolation and Marginalization in Jean Rhys’ Good Morning, Midnight --; 7. From Modernism to Contemporary Literature: A Timeless Debate --; Works Cited; restricted access N2 - Narcissistic mothers are an important motif in modernist literature. Tracing its appearance in the works of writers such as D.H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf, this book questions the dichotomous image of either benevolent or suffocating mother, which has pervaded religion, art and literature for centuries. Instead of focusing on the mother-child dyad as characterized primarily by maternal domination and the child' s submission, Marie Géraldine Rademacher insists on the definitional nuances of the term »narcissism« and considers the political and socio-economic context of the time in shaping these women's narcissistic behavior. The study thus inspires a more positive (re)reading of the protagonists UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839449660?locatt=mode:legacy UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783839449660 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9783839449660/original ER -