A classic account of Jane Austen in the context of eighteenth century feminist ideas and contemporary thought.
Margaret Kirkham shows that Jane Austen's views on the status of women, female education, marriage, the family and womens' representation in literature were remarkably similar to those of feminists of her own day.
Margaret Kirkham shows that Jane Austen's views on the status of women, female education, marriage, the family and womens' representation in literature were similar to those of feminists of her own day.
A classic account of Jane Austen in the context of eighteenth century feminist ideas and contemporary thought.
This book is an exploration of the attitudes towards, and treatments for, madness in the age before the mass asylum and the emergence of the psychiatric profession.
"Many of the leading Freudian analysts, including in the early days, Jung, Adler, Reich and Rank, attempted to link the writings of Nietzsche with the clinical work of Freud. But what was Nietzsche to Freud - an intuitive anticipation, a precursor, a rival psychologist? Assoun m…