Narrating the Passions

Simona Corso is Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Rome, Roma Tre.Beth Guilding is a PhD candidate and Associate Lecturer at Goldsmiths, University of London.

• Contents: Simona Corso: Introduction – Gillian Beer: Parental Passions – Laura Caretti: Ophelia’s Passions in Performance – Janet Todd: Romantic Love – Sophie Corser: Lovers’ Discourses: Marcel Proust’s Swann in Love and E. M. Forster’s A Room with a View – Simona Micali: The Objects of Passion: The Museum of Innocence by Orhan Pamuk – Gianna Zocco: Passion for the Other – Passion for the Self? Voyeurism and Subjectivity in Heimito von Doderer’s Die erleuchteten Fenster (1950) and Siri Hustvedt’s The Enchantment of Lily Dahl (1996) – Massimo Fusillo: Seduction as Passion: Myth, Novel and the Movies – Enrica Villari: Walter Scott, the Birth of the Historical Novel and the Romantic Legacy: Locality, Emotions and Knowledge – Igor Tchehoff: An Ambiguous Passion: Gambling in the Works of Fyodor Dostoevsky and Matilde Serao – Danila Cannamela: Childhood Passion in Sergio Corazzini’s Poetry: Rereading the Figure of the Little Boy Who Cries within his Cultural Context – Beth Guilding: Like a Gift from the Sky: Passions of the Residual Child – Amelia Worsley: Being Alone with Dr Winnicott – Annalisa Lombardi: Poetics of Dispassion: Herta Müller and Agota Kristof – Simona Corso: Indignation: Philip Roth and Beyond.

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