Sexual Analysis Of Dickens' Props
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A work of literary criticism, Sexual Analysis of Dickens' Props presents a psychoanalytic reading of the symbolic objects and physical details that populate the novels of Charles Dickens, arguing that these seemingly mundane props carry deep, often unconscious sexual and psychological significance. Arthur Washburn Brown applies a Freudian interpretive lens to uncover the latent erotic and libidinal meanings embedded in Dickens' famously vivid material world, from furniture and clothing to food and architectural spaces. The tone is scholarly yet provocative, challenging conventional Victorian-era readings of Dickens as a moralistic, sentimental author by illustrating how repressed sexuality permeates his prose at the level of object and image. Brown's analysis draws on close textual readings across multiple Dickens novels, making a sustained case that the author's celebrated descriptive richness is inseparable from a complex, coded sexual imagination. This study will appeal to readers with an interest in psychoanalytic literary theory, Victorian literature, and the cultural history of sexuality.
Author: Arthur Washburn Brown
Format: Hardback
Published: 1971, Emerson Books, Inc.
Genre: Literary theory
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
A work of literary criticism, Sexual Analysis of Dickens' Props presents a psychoanalytic reading of the symbolic objects and physical details that populate the novels of Charles Dickens, arguing that these seemingly mundane props carry deep, often unconscious sexual and psychological significance. Arthur Washburn Brown applies a Freudian interpretive lens to uncover the latent erotic and libidinal meanings embedded in Dickens' famously vivid material world, from furniture and clothing to food and architectural spaces. The tone is scholarly yet provocative, challenging conventional Victorian-era readings of Dickens as a moralistic, sentimental author by illustrating how repressed sexuality permeates his prose at the level of object and image. Brown's analysis draws on close textual readings across multiple Dickens novels, making a sustained case that the author's celebrated descriptive richness is inseparable from a complex, coded sexual imagination. This study will appeal to readers with an interest in psychoanalytic literary theory, Victorian literature, and the cultural history of sexuality.