Thinking without thinking in the Victorian novel
By: Vanessa L. Ryan
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Baltimore, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 243
ISBN-13: 9781421405919; 9781421406473
Subjects: Consciousness in literature; History and criticism; Psychology in literature; English fiction
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Mind in motion; title: The reflexive mind: Wilkie Collins and "unconscious cerebration"; title: Awareness: reflex and responsibility in George Eliot; title: Experience: mind work in W. B. Carpenter, G. H. Lewes, and Herbert Spencer; title: Almost knowledge: Henry James and consciousness "beyond the margin"; title: Muscular readers: George Meredith and "effortful style"; title: Novels for psychologists: James Sully and the "function of fiction"; title: Conclusion: The after-life of physiological psychology.