"It says something," write Lynda Boose and Betty Flowers, "that of the possible structural permutations of parent-child relations inscribed in our literary, mythic, historical, and psychoanalytic texts, the father and son are the first and the mother and son the second pair most frequently in focus." Daughters and Fathers shifts this focus to offer a provocative contribution to current discourse about representations of "the family."
Among the contributors, Lynda Boose explores the structural implications of Western culture's central daughter-father kinship exchange stories; Leah S. Marcus examines the politics of daughter-father relations in a historical study of Mary I and Elizabeth I as daughters of Henry VIII; and Diane F. Sadoff treats "good girl" novelists George Eliot, Elizabeth Gaskell, and Anne Bronte. Hortense J. Spillers focuses on the incest theme in works by Ralph Ellison and Alice Walker, while David Willbern examines Sigmund Freud's strange alteration of testimonies by women describing seduction by their fathers.
Representing a wide range of fields, the authors give special emphasis to daughter-father relationships in British and American literature. They discuss the lives and works of such authors as Richardson, Hawthorne, Christina Rossetti, Dickinson, Thackeray, Yeats, Woolf, and Plath. In an afterword, Carolyn G. Heilbrun widens the scope of discussion to suggest that questioning conventional parent-child relationships "may lead to quite other concepts of the family, moving. further and further from the oedipal or nuclear family and the system that family-construct inevitably produces."
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Important and ground-breaking contributions . . . Boose and Flowers have introduced a complicated subject with this excellent collection.
-Modern Language Review Boose and Flowers have introduced a complicated subject with this excellent collection.
-Modern Language Review
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Lynda E. Boose is an associate professor of English at Dartmouth College. Her publications include "The Father and the Bride in Shakespeare" in PMLA, plus articles in English Literary Renaissance, Philological Quarterly, Modern Philology, Hamlet Studies, Shakespeare Studies, Renaissance Quarterly, Teaching Approaches to "King Lear", and Vietnam in Remission. She is currently writing a book on Othello. Betty S. Flowers is an associate professor of English and director of the Plan II liberal arts honors program at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of Browning an the Modern Tradition, coauthor of Four Shields of Power, and editor of The Power of Myth. She has also published poetry, fiction, and articles on Barthelme, Rich, Christina Rossetti, novel writing, and poetry therapy.
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I. Cultural Filialogy
The Father's House and the Daughter in It: The Structures of Western Culture's Daughter-Father Relationship
Filia Oedipi: Father and Daughter in Freudian Theory
The Father's Seduction
The Daughter's Seduction: Sexual Violence and Literary History
The Evolution of Daughter-Father Relationships in Mexican-American Culture
"The Permanent Obliquity of an In[pha]llibly Straight:" In the Time of the Daughters and the Fathers
Part II. In Nomine Patris: The Daughter in Her Father's House
Engendering the Exemplary Daughter: The Deployment of Sexuality in Richardson's Clarissa
"A Daughter of the Puritans" and Her Old Master: Hawthorne, Una, and the Sexuality of Romance
A Father's Prayer, A Daughter's Anger: W. B. Yeats and Sylvia Plath
Life's Empty Pack: Notes toward a Literary Daughteronomy
Christina Rossetti: Dialogue with the Father God
Part III. In Nomine Filiae: The Artist as Her Father's Daughter
The Clergyman's Daughters: Anne Bronte, Elizabeth Gaskell, and George Eliot
Murderous Poetics: Dickinson, the Father, and the Text
Cam the Wicked: Woolf's Portrait of the Artist as Her Father's Daughter
"The Skies and Trees of the Past": Anne Thackeray Ritchie and William Makepeace Thackeray
Male Narcissism, Capitalism, and the Daughter of The Man Who Loved Children
Erasing the Stigma of Daughterhood: Mary I, Elizabeth I, and Henry VIII
Afterword
Notes on Illustrations
Works Cited
Notes on Contributors
