The sensitive son and the feminine ideal in literature : writers from Rousseau to Roth / Myron Tuman.

Intro; Preface; Acknowledgments; Contents; Chapter 1 Introduction-Hector's Helmet; References; Chapter 2 Getting Started-Roth, Proust, Freud, and Rousseau; Roth, the Rebellious Son, and the Family Dinner; Proust, the Needy Son, and a Goodnight Kiss; Freud, the Ambitious Son, and His Prized Medallion; Rousseau, the Adoring Son, and His Stolen Ribbon; References; Chapter 3 The Adoring Son in Love, 1-Rousseau; Palm Sunday, 1728; A Romantic Interlude with Madame Basile; Le Petit and Maman; References; Chapter 4 Another Stolen Ribbon-Mozart and Kierkegaard; Transgression; Kierkegaard in Love

"A Child Is Being Beaten"References; Chapter 9 The Uneasy Son-Fitzgerald and Lawrence; Mlles Vulson and Guton; "Winter Dreams"; "The Horse Dealer's Daughter"; The Great Gatsby-The Three Sons; Sons and Lovers; References; Chapter 10 The Bachelor Son-Stendhal and Schopenhauer; Rousseau's Venetian Courtesans; Stendhal's Parisian Courtesan; Stendhal in Love; Crystallization; Don Juan and Werther; Schopenhauer's "Transcendental Soap-Bubbles"; Sensitive Sons and Marriage; References; Chapter 11 The Sensitive Son's Midlife Crisis-Hazlitt and Rousseau; Shyness; Hazlitt's "Lodging-House Decoy"

A Second CrisisRousseau Turns to Novel Writing; Enter Sophie, "On Horseback, in Man's Clothes"; References; Chapter 12 The Dutiful Son-Flaubert; Flaubert in Love; Sentimental Education; More on Flaubert in Love; Prince Caprice; References; Chapter 13 The Adoring Son in Love, 2-Turgenev; First Love; Spring Torrents; A Month in the Country; Turgenev in Love Again; "The First Tender, Touching Joys of Love"; References; Chapter 14 The Sensitive Son in Old Age-Rousseau; "The Greybeard in Love"; Living with Dryads; Full Circle; References; Index