Estrangement between the father and the son-causes and consequences in Edmund Gosse’s father and son : a study of two temperaments
Other Title(s)
الخلاف بين الأب و الابن-الأسباب و العواقب في رواية إدموند غوس أب و ابن : دراسة مزاجيين
Joint Authors
al-Shitawi, Mahmud
Adi, Fatin M.
Source
Dirasat : Human and Social Sciences
Issue
Vol. 46, Issue 1 (sup 2) (31 Mar. 2019), pp.173-185, 13 p.
Publisher
University of Jordan Deanship of Academic Research (DAR)
Publication Date
2019-03-31
Country of Publication
Jordan
No. of Pages
13
Main Subjects
Abstract EN
This study aims at identifying the nature of father-son estrangement in nineteenth-century British family exemplified in Edmund Gosse’s Father and Son: A Study of Two Temperaments.
This study departs from the psychoanalytical perspective and examines father-son estrangement in the light of the concept of patriarchal authority and its socio-cultural implications in the nineteenth-century British society.
It also focuses on the impact of evolutionary theories on the Victorian society, in the sense that with the emergence of evolutionary theories all taken-for-granted ideas, authorities such as paternal authority, and institutions are put into question.
The findings show that in Gosse’s novel, the father and the son embody two separate islands; each one adheres to contradictory interests, conflicting principles, and life-choices.
While the father tries to refashion his son’s life according to the principles of self-denial, repression, and imposition of a religious vocation, the son is imaginative and skeptical; he pushes against his father’s system of upbringing and adheres to instincts, imagination, and love of literature.
The study also finds out that a life based wholly on self-restraint and life-denying religion is not balanced, because one’s desires, instincts, and individual life-choices cannot be eliminated totally.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Adi, Fatin M.& al-Shitawi, Mahmud. 2019. Estrangement between the father and the son-causes and consequences in Edmund Gosse’s father and son : a study of two temperaments. Dirasat : Human and Social Sciences،Vol. 46, no. 1 (sup 2), pp.173-185.
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Modern Language Association (MLA)
Adi, Fatin M.& al-Shitawi, Mahmud. Estrangement between the father and the son-causes and consequences in Edmund Gosse’s father and son : a study of two temperaments. Dirasat : Human and Social Sciences Vol. 46, no. 1 (Second supplement) (2019), pp.173-185.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1178418
American Medical Association (AMA)
Adi, Fatin M.& al-Shitawi, Mahmud. Estrangement between the father and the son-causes and consequences in Edmund Gosse’s father and son : a study of two temperaments. Dirasat : Human and Social Sciences. 2019. Vol. 46, no. 1 (sup 2), pp.173-185.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1178418
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
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Record ID
BIM-1178418