Melancholics in Love: Representing WomenOs Depression and Domestic Abuse joins psychoanalytic theories of melancholia and mourning (Freud, Kristeva) with cultural studies and its attention to power relations in cultural practice. It is interested in the borderland between the psychoanalytic and the cultural, where desire is imbricated with power and individual psyches with cultural formations. Drawing from a wide spectrum of literary and autobiographical texts from the past and present, such as Jane Austen's Emma and Tina TurnerOs I, Tina, Frances L. Restuccia moves from a psychoanalytic explanation of the formation of women melancholics to the cultural co-construction of battered women. A fascinating, provocative, and highly original study in melancholia and domestic abuse, Melancholics in Love will be of special interest to anyone concerned with social justice for battered women or the politics of representation of violence against women.
| ISBN: | 9780847698288 |
| Publication date: | 9th February 2000 |
| Author: | Frances L Restuccia |
| Publisher: | Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 145 pages |
| Genres: |
Literature: history and criticism |
Melancholics in Love: Representing WomenOs Depression and Domestic Abuse joins psychoanalytic theories of melancholia and mourning (Freud, Kristeva) with cultural studies and its attention to power relations in cultural practice. It is interested in the borderland between the psychoanalytic and the cultural, where desire is imbricated with power and individual psyches with cultural formations. Drawing from a wide spectrum of literary and autobiographical texts from the past and present, such as Jane Austen's Emma and Tina TurnerOs I, Tina, Frances L. Restuccia moves from a psychoanalytic explanation of the formation of women melancholics to the cultural co-construction of battered women. A fascinating, provocative, and highly original study in melancholia and domestic abuse, Melancholics in Love will be of special interest to anyone concerned with social justice for battered women or the politics of representation of violence against women.
Melancholics in Love features in the following genres: Literature: history and criticism
Melancholics in Love is available in Hardback, Paperback
Melancholics in Love was written by Frances L Restuccia and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Melancholics in Love has 145 pages