A Double Singleness: Gender and the Writings of Charles and Mary Lamb

by Jane Aaron

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In 1796 when Mary Lamb, in a sudden attack of violent frenzy, killed her mother, her brother Charles took her care upon himself, thus sparing her from incarceration in Bedlam. For the next thirty years, they lived and wrote together. Informed by feminist and psychoanalytic literary theory, this study provides an entirely new perspective on the lives and writings of the Lambs. Aaron argues that their ideological inheritance as the children of servants,...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0198128908

ISBN13:9780198128908

Release Date:September 1991

Publisher:Clarendon Press

Length:230 Pages

Weight:1.00 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 5.8" x 8.8"

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Biographical Biographies Biographies & History Biography & History Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Social Science Social Sciences

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