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George Eliot has been widely praised both for the richness of her prose and the universality of her themes. In this compelling study, Peggy Fitzhugh Johnstone goes beyond these traditional foci to examine the role of aggression in Eliot's fiction and to find its source in the author's unconscious sense of loss stemming from traumatic family separations and deaths during her childhood and adolescence. Johnstone demonstrates that Eliot's creative work was a constructive response to her sense of loss and that the repeating patterns in her novels reflect the process of release from her state of mourning for lost loved ones.

Psychological fiction, English --- Characters and characteristics in literature --- Psychoanalysis and literature --- Creativity in literature --- Emotions in literature --- Grief in literature --- Anger in literature --- English --- Languages & Literatures --- English Literature --- History and criticism --- Characters and characteristics in literature. --- Creativity in literature. --- Emotions in literature. --- Grief in literature. --- Anger in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Eliot, George, --- Knowledge --- Psychology. --- Character sketches --- Characterization (Literature) --- Literary characters --- Literary portraits --- Portraits, Literary --- Cross, Marian Evans, --- Evans, Marian, --- Eliot, Džordž, --- Ėliot, Dzhordzh, --- Cross, Mary Ann, --- Lewes, M. E. --- Lewes, Marian Evans, --- Elliŏtʻū, Choji, --- Eliyaṭ, Jārj, --- Evans, Mary Anne, --- אליוט, ג׳ַַורג׳ --- אליוט, ג׳ורג׳, --- עליאט, דזשארדזש --- עליאט, דזשארדזש, --- עליוט ג׳יארג׳, --- עליוט, גי׳ארג׳, --- עליוט, ג׳רארג׳,

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Impotence and Making in Samuel Beckett’s Trilogy is situated at the intersection of the aesthetic, socio-political and theoretical construction of being and not-being; it is about making the self, making others, and making words, set against being unable to make the self, others and words. Concentrating on Samuel Beckett’s prose works, though also focusing on some of his dramatic works, the book aims to problematize the categories of ‘impotence’ and ‘making’ by showing Beckett’s quasi-deconstructive treatment of them as seen through his narrators’ images of being unable to make self, other creatures and words (impotence), along with his narrators’ images of making self, other creatures and words (making). By demonstrating that his narrators, while being impotent, nevertheless gestate and produce new entities from their bodies in the same way as a mother does a child, the book aims to reveal how, for Beckett’s narrators, creativity in its widest sense is envisaged.

Beckett, Samuel --- Impotence in literature --- Creativity in literature --- Beckett, Samuel, --- Criticism and interpretation --- Malloy --- LITERARY CRITICISM --- General --- Romance Literatures --- English --- English Literature --- French Literature --- Languages & Literatures --- Impotence in literature. --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Pei-kʻo-tʻe, Sa-miao-erh, --- Beḳeṭ, Samuel, --- Beckett, Sam, --- Беккет, Сэмюэль, --- בעקעט, סאמועל --- בקט, סמואל --- בקט, סמואל, --- بكت، ساموئل --- Innommable (Beckett, Samuel) --- Malone meurt (Beckett, Samuel) --- Molloy (Beckett, Samuel) --- Malone dies (Beckett, Samuel) --- Unnamable (Beckett, Samuel) --- Bikit, Sāmūʼil, --- Beckett, Samuel, - 1906-1989 - Criticism and interpretation --- Beckett, Samuel, - 1906-1989. - Innommable --- Beckett, Samuel, - 1906-1989. - Malone meurt --- Beckett, Samuel, - 1906-1989 - Malloy --- Beckett, Samuel, - 1906-1989 --- Beckett, Samuel (1906-1989) --- Impuissance sexuelle --- Thèmes, motifs --- Dans la littérature