Table of Contents

1. Introduction

2. A Novel Feeling: Aesthetics of Emotion and the Modern Novel

3. Mater Sacer: Addie as Sublime Object in William Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying

4. Only Disconnect: Ruth Wilcox, Death, and the Sublime Object in Howards End

5. Transcending the Rainbow: The Possibility of Sublime Intersubjectivity in D.H. Lawrence’s The Rainbow

6. "What is R?": Mrs. Ramsay as Feminism’s Sublime Object in Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse

Epilogue: Žižek’s Mom: Theory, Feminism, and the Mother

About the Author

Erin K. Johns Speese is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Duquesne University, USA.