"“[An] intelligent and unique collection of essays.” —Choice Steven Marcus discusses Freud’s famous cases “Dora” and “The Rat Man,” as well as the Freud—Fliess correspondence, the Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality, and the evolution of Freud’s notion of the superego. Through his close reading of various of Freud’s theoretical and clinical texts, he is able to asses Freud both as an exemplary late Victorian and as a pivotal figure i ..."
Representations Essays on Literature and Society by StevenMarcus Paperback, 331 Pages, Published 1991 by Columbia University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-231-07401-8, ISBN: 0-231-07401-8
"Good copy, unread. Has minor shelf wear."
The Other Victorians(1st Edition) A Study of Sexuality and Pornography in Mid-nineteenth-century England by StevenMarcus Paperback, 314 Pages, Published 2008 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-1-4128-0819-4, ISBN: 1-4128-0819-7
"Taking as his point of departure the authors, the audience, and the texts of Victorian writings on sex in general and of Victorian pornography in particular, Steven Marcus offers a startling and revolutionary perspective on the underside of Victorian culture. The subjects dealt with in The Other Victorians are not only those to have been "shocking" in the Victorian period. The way these subjects were regarded--and the way our notions of ..."
"This fabulous anthology is sure to be a core text for history of medicine and social science classes in colleges across the country. In order to demonstrate how medical research has influenced Western cultural perspectives, the editors have collected original works from 61 different authors around nine major themes (among them "Anatomy and Destiny," "Psyche and Soma," and "The Construction of Pain, Suffering, and Death"). The auth ..."
The Other Victorians A Study of Sexuality and Pornography in Mid-Nineteenth-Century England by StevenMarcus 313 Pages, Published 2017 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-1-351-47775-8, ISBN: 1-351-47775-7
"As for external nature as we ordinarily perceive it, that exists in pornotopia in an
incidental yet interesting way. If a tree or a bush is represented as existing, the
one purpose of its existence is as a place to copulate under or behind. If there is
a ..."
"Peter Cadogan, “Harney and Engels,” International Review of Social History, X (
1965), 97. What this kind of fixed belief has to do with the processes of projection
and wish-fulfillment, and how both are related in the mind of a revolutionary ..."
Freud and the Culture of Psychoanalysis(1st Edition) (RLE: Freud): Studies in the Transition from Victorian Humanism to Modernity (Routledge Library Editions: Freud) by StevenMarcus Paperback, 280 Pages, Published 2016 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-1-138-99313-6, ISBN: 1-138-99313-1
"Originally published in 1984, this book broke new ground in assessing Freud as both an exemplary late-Victorian and as a pivotal figure in the creation of modern thought and culture. In his close reading of various of Freud’s theoretical and clinical texts, including two of the most famous case histories, Steven Marcus uncovers the steps in the development of Freud’s thought, the dynamics and contradictions and ‘the intellectual and emo ..."
"A psychoanalyst, a professor of comparative literature, a social historian, and the director of the New York Civil Liberties Union analyze and criticize social-policy responses to the needs of such dependent individuals as the handicapped, ..."
"Friedrich Engels' first major work, The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844, has long been considered a social, political, and economic classic. The first book of its kind to study the phenomenon of urbanism and the problems of the modern city, Engels' text contains many of the ideas he was later to develop in collaboration with Karl Marx. In this book, Steven Marcus, author of the highly acclaimed The Other Victorians, ap ..."
"Recounts the travels and comic experiences of Samuel Pickwick, his friends, and the members of his club"
Neuroethics(1st Edition) Mapping the Field by Steven J. Marcus, Sj Marcus Paperback, 367 Pages, Published 2004 by Dana Press ISBN-13: 978-0-9723830-0-4, ISBN: 0-9723830-0-X
"This volume contains the proceedings of a two-day multidisciplinary conference on the ethical implications of brain research organized by Stanford University and the University of California, San Francisco. Leaders in neuroscience, journalism, law, and philosophy, among other fields, engaged in a freewheeling debate on the social and individual effects of the research. Steven Marcus has edited their formal and informal deliberations to ..."
"Friedrich Engels’ first major work, The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844, has long been considered a social, political, and economic classic. The first book of its kind to study the phenomenon of urbanism and the problems of the modern city, Engels’ text contains many of the ideas he was later to develop in collaboration with Karl Marx. In this book, Steven Marcus, author of the highly acclaimed The Other Victorians, ap ..."
Emma (Barnes & Noble Classics) by Jane Austen, Victoria Blake Paperback, 449 Pages, Published 2004 by Barnes & Noble Classics ISBN-13: 978-1-59308-152-2, ISBN: 1-59308-152-9
"An analytical biography of the precursor of psychoanalysis and famous neurologist, which reveals his childhood, courtship and marriage, career, ill health and death from cancer. Bibliogs."
Dickens(Updated) From Pickwick to Dombey by StevenMarcus Paperback, 1 Pages, Published 1986 by W W Norton & Co Inc ISBN-13: 978-0-393-30286-8, ISBN: 0-393-30286-5
"Examines the themes, literary significance, and style of the English novelist's first seven works"
"Feargus O'Connor's Chartist Land Plan was such a scheme. ... Deane, The First
Industrial Revolution (Cambridge, 1965); E. J. Hobsbawm, Industry and Empire (
New York, 1968), pp. 1–88; David ... 43, when Nell and her grandfather are
brought by barge to the great industrial town, they “passed through a dirty lane
into a ..."