Shock, memory and the unconscious in Victorian fiction
By: Jill L. Matus.
Series: Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture -- 69; Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture -- 69.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Cambridge, UK; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 247
ISBN-13: 9780521760249
Subjects: English literature -- 19th century -- Psychological aspects; English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Psychological fiction, English -- History and criticism; Memory in literature; Subconsciousness in literature; Emotions in literature; Psychic trauma in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 226-235) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: the psyche in pain; title: Historicizing trauma; title: Dream and trance: Gaskell's North and south as a "condition-of-consciousness" novel; title: Memory and aftermath: from Dicken's "The signalman" to The mystery of Edwin Drood; title: Overwhelming emotion and psychic shock in George Eliot's The lifted veil and Daniel Deronda; title: Dissociation and multiple selves: memory, Myers and Stevenson's "shilling shocker"; title: Afterword on afterwards.