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This work examines the dialectic of desire and value, as it affects the protagonist's identity, in fiction from Dickens and George Eliot through Hardy and Conrad to Lawrence and Joyce. Philip Weinstein describes the growing sexualization of the imagined body--the transformation of the protagonistic self from a figure defined by semantics, signification, and cultural value to one characterized by desire, force, and natural impulse. Originally published in 1984. The Princeton Legacy Library uses t

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Author

Conrad, Joseph;Dickens, Charles;Eliot, George;Hardy, Thomas;Lawrence, David Herbert;Weinstein, Philip M

Publisher

Princeton University Press

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9781400857395

Category

literary studies

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction, Psychology

Updated

2026-03-25