The Complicity of Friends
Subtitle: How George Eliot, G. H. Lewes, and John Hughlings-Jackson Encoded Herbert Spencer’s Secret
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Lewisburg, PA
ISBN-13: 9781611485974
Table of contents: title: Contents; title: Preface; title: Abbreviations; title: 1 Introduction: Two Secrets—or One?; title: Phase One: What Eliot Saw, What Spencer Said; title: 2 “The Lifted Veil,” A: George Eliot Stolen!; title: 3 “The Lifted Veil,” B: Revenge by Diagnosis; title: 4 A Fitful Reader; title: 5 The Dagger Sheathed, Partly; title: Phase Two: What the Philosopher Wrote (with a Friend’s Rejoinder); title: 6 Electricity and the Man; title: 7 The Mystery of the Two Rooms; title: 8 Enter Hughlings-Jackson; title: 9 A Good Strong Terrible Vision; title: Phase Three: What the Doctor Heard; title: 10 Lewes the Fixer; title: 11 Who Was Hughlings-Jackson’s “Educated Patient”?; title: 12 Ghost Stories; title: Phase Four: The Exchange of Prisoners; title: 13 The Man between the Fits; title: 14 Eliot Does Mischief (Again); title: 15 Life after the Georges; title: 16 Conclusion: The Brain is Not the Mind; title: Appendix 1: Many Snapshots, One Secretive Patient; title: Appendix 2: Did Spencer Have Autosomal Dominant Partial Epilepsy; title: with Auditory Features?; title: Notes; title: Acknowledgments; title: List of Works Cited; title: Index