Dead Fathers: The Logic of Transference in Modern Narrative

Reading modernist literature through the lenses of feminist and psychoanalytic theory, Dead Fathers: The Logic of Transference in Modern Narrative examines the reproduction of passions and passionate conflicts—in individual behavior, in literary representations of such behavior, and in the critical responses to the literature.Through readings of four canonical modernist texts—Heart of Darkness, The Wings of the Dove, The Sun Also Rises, and A Room of One's Own—Nina Schwartz analyzes represe...