Monstrous Kinships is a study investigating the connection between realist fiction of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and the psychoanalytic approach of John Bowlbys attachment theory. Combining personal experience with the creative impulse, Shelleys Frankenstein, Melvilles Pierre, Hardys Jude the Obscure, Cranes Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, and Dreisers An American Tragedy exposed the durable and disastrous effects of child abuse in the larger social conflicts of industrialization, poverty, and class relationships.
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