Ebook: Desire and Its Discontents

A study of desire and how it is represented in works of literature such as Conrad's Heart of Darkness, Mann's Death in Venice, Ford's The Good Soldier, and Bronte's Wuthering Heights. Also examines D.H. Lawrence and the tyranny of desire, the Freudian narrative and the case of Jacques Lacan, and postmodern meditations on the self.