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Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents v
- Acknowledgments vii
- Abbreviations Used in Citations ix
- Introduction: Oedipus Before Freud: Humanism and Myth in H.G. Wells’s The Time Machine 1
- 1. Oedipus Against Freud: The Origins of D.H. Lawrence’s Anti-Humanism 21
- 2. Anti-Humanists at Colonus: The Oedipus Myth in Wyndham Lewis and T.S. Eliot 49
- 3. Dystopian Oedipus: Freudianism and Totalitarianism in Aldous Huxley, George Orwell, and Malcolm Lowry 71
- 4. Freudful Mistakes in Sphinxish Pairc: Oedipal Humanism and Irish Nationalism in W.B. Yeats, James Joyce, and Samuel Beckett 93
- 5. Oedipus Que(e)ried: Humanism, Sexuality, and Gender in E.M. Forster and Virginia Woolf 123
- Conclusion: Oedipus Reconsidered: Humanism as a Post-Structuralist Narrative in Christine Brooke-Rose and Zadie Smith 149
- Notes 171
- Bibliography 181
- Index 193
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents v
- Acknowledgments vii
- Abbreviations Used in Citations ix
- Introduction: Oedipus Before Freud: Humanism and Myth in H.G. Wells’s The Time Machine 1
- 1. Oedipus Against Freud: The Origins of D.H. Lawrence’s Anti-Humanism 21
- 2. Anti-Humanists at Colonus: The Oedipus Myth in Wyndham Lewis and T.S. Eliot 49
- 3. Dystopian Oedipus: Freudianism and Totalitarianism in Aldous Huxley, George Orwell, and Malcolm Lowry 71
- 4. Freudful Mistakes in Sphinxish Pairc: Oedipal Humanism and Irish Nationalism in W.B. Yeats, James Joyce, and Samuel Beckett 93
- 5. Oedipus Que(e)ried: Humanism, Sexuality, and Gender in E.M. Forster and Virginia Woolf 123
- Conclusion: Oedipus Reconsidered: Humanism as a Post-Structuralist Narrative in Christine Brooke-Rose and Zadie Smith 149
- Notes 171
- Bibliography 181
- Index 193