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The sensitive son and the feminine ideal in literature : writers from Rousseau to Roth /

This book considers major male writers from the last three centuries whose relation to a strong, often distant woman - one sometimes modeled on their own mother - forms the romantic core of their greatest narratives. Myron Tuman explores the theory that there is an underlying psychological type, the...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Tuman, Myron C., 1946- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2019]
Subjects:
Fiction > Male authors > History and criticism.
Male authors.
Masculinity in literature.
Mothers and sons in literature.
Women in literature.
Fiction > Male authors.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction - Hector's helmet
  • Getting started - Roth, Proust, Freud, and Rousseau
  • The adoring son in love, 1 - Rousseau
  • Another stolen ribbon - Mozart and Kierkegaard
  • The sorrows of a young son - Goethe
  • Pygmalion in love - Bernard Shaw
  • The narcissistic son - Freud and da Vinci
  • The masochist son - Sacher-Masoch
  • The uneasy son - Fitzgerald and Lawrence
  • The bachelor son - Stendhal and Schopenhauer
  • The sensitive son's midlife crisis - Hazlitt and Rousseau
  • The dutiful son - Flaubert
  • The adoring son in love, 2 - Turgenev
  • The sensitive son in old age - Rousseau.