Primitive minds : evolution and spiritual experience in the Victorian novel /
Neill, Anna,1965-
Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University Press,
c2013.
Includes bibliographical references (p 213-228) and index.
Introduction: Evolution and the dreamy mind -- Charlotte Brontë's hypochondriacal heroines -- Spirits and seizures in Bleak House and Our mutual friend -- Suspended animation and second sight: Daniel Deronda and Silas Marner -- Dreamy intuition and detective genius: Ezra Jennings and Sherlock Holmes -- The end of the novel: naturalism and reverie in Tess of the d'Urbervilles and The return of the native.
English fiction
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