The Semantics of Desire, Changing Models of Identity From Dickens to Joyce

Weinstein, Philip M.

ISBN 10: 0691065942 / ISBN 13: 9780691065946

Published by Princeton University Press, 1984

About this Item

310pp.

Seller Inventory # 001813

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Semantics of Desire, Changing Models of Identity From Dickens to Joyce
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Publication Date: 1984
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0691065942
• ISBN 13: 9780691065946
• Binding: Hardback
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Literary Criticism

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Synopsis

This work examines the dialectic of desire and value, as it affects the protagonist's identity, in fiction from Dickens and George Eliot through Hardy and Conrad to Lawrence and Joyce. Philip Weinstein describes the growing sexualization of the imagined body--the transformation of the protagonistic self from a figure defined by semantics, signification, and cultural value to one characterized by desire, force, and natural impulse.

Originally published in 1984.

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About the Author

Philip M. Weinstein is Alexander Griswold Cummins Professor of English at Swarthmore College.