{"product_id":"the-burdens-of-intimacy-psychoanalysis-and-victorian-masculinity-9780226468594","title":"The Burdens of Intimacy  Psychoanalysis and","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShowing why Victorian fiction conveys both the pleasure and anguish of intimacy, this text examines works by Bulwer-Lytton, Swinburne, Schreiner, Hardy, James, Santayana, and Forster, he argues that these writers struggled with aspects of psychology that undermined the utilitarian ethos of the age.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments Preface Introduction: Victorian Asymmetry: The Study of Repression and Desire  1: The Specter of Effeminacy in Bulwer-Lytton's  Pelham  2: Love's Vicissitudes in Swinburne's  Lesbia Brandon  3: \"Gregory's Womanhood\" in Schreiner's  The Story of an African Farm  4: Hardy and the Claims of Friendship  5: The Impossibility of Seduction in James's  Roderick Hudson and  The Tragic Muse  6: Santayana and the Problem of Beauty  7: Betrayal and Its Consolations in Forster's Writing  Afterword: The Homosexual in the Text  Notes  Works Cited  Index","brand":"University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51036543746391,"sku":"9780226468594","price":76.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780226468594.jpg?v=1750932323","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-burdens-of-intimacy-psychoanalysis-and-victorian-masculinity-9780226468594","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}