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Multiple personality and the disintegration of literary character : from Oliver Goldsmith to Sylvia Plath

Title
Multiple personality and the disintegration of literary character : from Oliver Goldsmith to Sylvia Plath / Jeremy Hawthorn.
Author
Hawthorn, Jeremy.
Publication
New York : St. Martin's Press, 1983.

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Description
x, 146 pages; 23 cm
Subject
  • Geschichte 1770-1970
  • English literature > Psychological aspects
  • Multiple personality in literature
  • American literature > Psychological aspects
  • Doubles in literature
  • Characters and characteristics in literature
  • Psychology and literature
  • Literatur
  • Literarische Gestalt
  • Bewusstseinsspaltung
  • Bewusstseinsspaltung Motiv
  • USA
  • Englisch
Note
  • Includes index.
Bibliography (note)
  • Bibliography: p. 137-141.
Contents
Multiple personality -- Personality, history and society -- The mistakes of a night: double standards in She Stoops to Conquer -- Double lives: Dostoyevsky, Hawthorne, Stevenson, Dickens and Gaskell -- No room of one's own: Charlotte Brontë's Villete -- Isolation and identity: Joseph Conrad's The Secret Sharer -- Race, relationship, and identity: William Faulkner and Jean Rhys -- Sales and solidarity: Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman -- The Bell Jar and the larger things: Sylvia Plath.
ISBN
  • 0312552637
  • 9780312552633
LCCN
83002876
OCLC
  • ocm09197777
  • 9197777
  • SCSB-9135685
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library