Journal article
Childhood, severed heads, and the uncanny: Freudian precursors
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Freud's theories of the uncanny are generally treated ahistorically as an originary text. This essay places his work in the context of nineteenth-century English theories of childhood development (particularly the work of James Sully), the uncanny, and the unconscious. Drawing on literary texts from Robert Southey, Charles Kingsley, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Frances Power Cobbe, and the art of John William Waterhouse, it explores how the ancient oracular figure of the teraph, interpreted...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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(Accepted manuscript, pdf, 116.0KB)
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.2979/victorianstudies.58.1.04
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- Publisher:
- Indiana University Press Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Victorian Studies Journal website
- Volume:
- 58
- Issue:
- 1 (Autumn)
- Pages:
- 1-8
- Publication date:
- 2015-01-01
- DOI:
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1527-2052
- ISSN:
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0042-5222
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- Pubs id:
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pubs:611464
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uuid:c7c31af0-810c-406a-baa0-3efd050556bc
- Local pid:
- pubs:611464
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611464
- Deposit date:
- 2016-03-23
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- Copyright holder:
- The Trustees of Indiana University
- Copyright date:
- 2015
- Notes:
- © 2016 The Trustees of Indiana University. This is the accepted manuscript version of the article. The final version is available online from Indiana University Press at: 10.2979/victorianstudies.58.1.04
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