The complicity of friends : how George Eliot, G.H. Lewes, and John Hughlings-Jackson encoded Herbert Spencer's secret /

The Complicity of Friends offers an entirely original perspective within which to appreciate four eminent Victorians: Herbert Spencer, George Eliot, G.H. Lewes, and John Hughlings-Jackson. For the first time, I clarify the nature of Spencer's illness and demonstrate its repercussions in the liv...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Raitiere, Martin N., 1948-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lanham, Md. : Bucknell University Press, c2012.
Temas:
Eliot, George, > 1819-1880 > Friends and associates.
Eliot, George, > 1819-1880 > Criticism and interpretation.
Lewes, George Henry, > 1817-1878.
Spencer, Herbert, > 1820-1903 > Influence.
Jackson, J. Hughlings > (John Hughlings), > 1835-1911.
Eliot, George, > 1819-1880
Lewes, George Henry, > 1817-1878
Spencer, Herbert, > 1820-1903
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Friendship
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction: Two Secrets
  • or One?
  • Phase One What Eliot Saw, What Spencer Said
  • 2. "The Lifted Veil," A: George Eliot Stolen!
  • 3. "The Lifted Veil," B: Revenge by Diagnosis
  • 4. Fitful Reader
  • 5. Dagger Sheathed, Partly
  • Phase Two What the Philosopher Wrote (with a Friend's Rejoinder)
  • 6. Electricity and the Man
  • 7. Mystery of the Two Rooms
  • 8. Enter Hughlings-Jackson
  • 9. Good Strong Terrible Vision
  • Phase Three What the Doctor Heard
  • 10. Lewes the Fixer
  • 11. Who Was Hughlings-Jackson's "Educated Patient"?
  • 12. Ghost Stories
  • Phase Four Exchange of Prisoners
  • 13. Man between the Fits
  • 14. Eliot Does Mischief (Again)
  • 15. Life After the Georges
  • 16. Conclusion: The Brain Is Not the Mind.

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