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Shock, memory and the unconscious in Victorian fiction /
"Jill Matus explores shock in Victorian fiction and psychology with startling results that reconfigure the history of trauma theory. Central to Victorian thinking about consciousness and emotion, shock is a concept that challenged earlier ideas about the relationship between mind and body. Alth...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, UK ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2009.
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| Colección: | Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ;
69. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: the psyche in pain
- Historicizing trauma
- Dream and trance: Gaskell's North and south as a "condition-of-consciousness" novel
- Memory and aftermath: from Dicken's "The signalman" to The mystery of Edwin Drood
- Overwhelming emotion and psychic shock in George Eliot's The lifted veil and Daniel Deronda
- Dissociation and multiple selves: memory, Myers and Stevenson's "shilling shocker"
- Afterword on afterwards.