The Sensitive Son and the Feminine Ideal in Literature Writers from Rousseau to Roth /

• Main Author: Tuman, Myron (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Comparative literature.; Literature-History and criticism.; Philosophy of mind.; Cognitive psychology.; Comparative Literature.; Literary History.; Philosophy of Mind.; Cognitive Psychology.

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 sen...