TY - BOOK ID - 46320808 TI - The Sensitive Son and the Feminine Ideal in Literature : Writers from Rousseau to Roth PY - 2019 SN - 3030157016 3030157008 PB - Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, DB - UniCat KW - Mothers and sons. KW - Mothers and sons in literature. KW - Male authors. KW - Men authors KW - Authors KW - Sons and mothers KW - Mother and child KW - Sons KW - Comparative literature. KW - Literature—History and criticism. KW - Philosophy of mind. KW - Cognitive psychology. KW - Comparative Literature. KW - Literary History. KW - Philosophy of Mind. KW - Cognitive Psychology. KW - Comparative literature KW - Literature, Comparative KW - Philology KW - Mind, Philosophy of KW - Mind, Theory of KW - Theory of mind KW - Philosophy KW - Cognitive science KW - Metaphysics KW - Philosophical anthropology KW - History and criticism KW - Psychology, Cognitive KW - Psychology KW - Literature KW - Appraisal of books KW - Books KW - Evaluation of literature KW - Criticism KW - Literary style KW - History and criticism. KW - Appraisal KW - Evaluation UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:46320808 AB - This book considers major male writers from the last three centuries whose relation to a strong, often distant woman—one sometimes modeled on their own mother—forms the romantic core of their greatest narratives. Myron Tuman explores the theory that there is an underlying psychological type, the sensitive son, connecting these otherwise diverse writers. The volume starts and ends with Jean-Jacques Rousseau, whose Confessions provides an early portrait of one such son. There are chapters on other adoring sons, Stendhal, Sacher-Masoch, Scott Fitzgerald, and Turgenev, as well as on sons like Bernard Shaw and D.H. Lawrence with a different, less affectionate psychological disposition toward women. This book demonstrates how, despite many differences, the best works of all these sensitive sons reflect the deep, contorted nature of their desire, a longing that often seems less for an actual woman than for an elusive feminine ideal. ER -