Women, Love, and Power: Literary and Psychoanalytic Perspectives

Elaine Baruch

Published by New York University Press 1991

Women, Love, and Power

Literary and Psychoanalytic Perspectives

Elaine Baruch

https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9780814723371.001.0001

Overview
Contents

About this book

Elaine Baruch is not only among the most quiet-voiced and fair-minded of feminist writers. She is also among the most far-ranging in her scholarship, equally at ease with the writers of the Renaissance and Freud, the medieval troubadours, and our contemporary polemicists. . . instructive, absorbing, and persuasive.
--Diana Trilling
A lively mind is at work here and a keen and witty writer too.
--Irving HoweThis is a fine collection of essays. . . making many imaginative conjectures and amusing connections.
--Times Literary SupplementIn these essays what emerges is a history of romantic love. . . Highly recommended.--Library Journal
Arguing that romantic love need not be a tool of women's oppression, feminist critic Baruch. . . contends that unacknowledged male fantasies about love motivate much literature by men. . . rewarding, provocative.--Publishers Weekly
Utilizing both Freudian and non-Freudian psychoanalysis as well as feminist criticism, Baruch examines literary works by women and men from medieval and Romantic periods as well as cultural observations on the twentieth century and how they have influenced attitudes toward love.

Author / Editor information

Baruch Elaine :

ELAINE HOFFMAN BARUCH, who has a Ph.D. in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University, is a professor of English and women's studies at York College of the City University of New york. She is the author of numerous articles on literature, psychoanalysis, and women, and is the coauthor of Women Analyze Women: In France, England, and the United States (with Lucienne Serrano) and coeditor of Women in Search of Utopia and Embryos, Ethics, and Women's Rights.

Topics

Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
1. Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2. Whatever Happened to Romantic Love? Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	25
3. He Speaks/She Speaks: Language in Some Medieval Love Literature Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	31
4. The Politics of Courtship Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	52
5. Marvell's "Nymph": A Study of Feminine Consciousness Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	69
6. Romantic Narcissism: Freud and the Love O/Abject Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	82
7. On Splitting the Sexual Object: Before and After Freud Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	103
8. The Feminine Bildungsroman: Education through Marriage Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	122
9. Ibsen's Doll House: A Myth for Our Time Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	145
10. Women and Love: Some Dying Myths Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	161
11. "A Natural and Necessary Monster": Women in Men's Utopias Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	182
12. Love and the Sexual Object in Zamyatin's We and Orwell's 1984, with a Postscript on the Feminist Utopia Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	207
13. The Female Body and the Male Mind: Reconsidering Simone de Beauvoir Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	230
14. The Return of Romantic Love: Living the Literature Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	247
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	269

Language: English
Publisher: New York University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;

eBook

Published: June 1, 1991
ISBN: 9780814723371