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Thinking about other people in nineteenth-century British writing /

"Nineteenth-century life and literature are full of strange accounts that describe the act of one person thinking about another as an ethically problematic, sometimes even a dangerously powerful thing to do. Adela Pinch explains why, when, and under what conditions it is possible, or desirable,...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Pinch, Adela, 1960-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Colección:Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 73.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Love thinking
  • Thinking as action: James Frederick Ferrier's Philosophy of consciousness
  • Foam, aura, or melody: Theorizing mental force in Victorian Britain
  • Thinking in the second person in nineteenth-century poetry
  • Thinking and knowing in Patmore and Meredith
  • Daniel Deronda and the omnipotence of thought
  • Conclusion: The ethics of belief and the poetics of thinking about another person.