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Spirit Becomes Matter : the Brontë̈s, George Eliot, Nietzsche /
Traces the development of critical moral psychology in the central novels of the Brontñs and George Eliot. This book explains how, under the influence of the new 'mental materialism' that held sway in mid-Victorian scientific and medical thought, the Brontñs and George Eliot in their g...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
2014.
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| Colección: | Edinburgh critical studies in Victorian culture.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Traces the development of critical moral psychology in the central novels of the Brontñs and George Eliot. This book explains how, under the influence of the new 'mental materialism' that held sway in mid-Victorian scientific and medical thought, the Brontñs and George Eliot in their greatest novels broached a radical new form of novelistic moral psychology. This was one no longer bound by the idealizing presuppositions of traditional Christian moral ideology, and, as Henry Staten argues, is closely related to Nietzsche's physiological theory of will to power (itself directly influenced by Herbert Spencer). On this reading, Staten suggests, the Brontñs and George Eliot participate, with Flaubert, Baudelaire, and Nietzsche, in the beginnings of the modernist turn toward a strictly naturalistic moral psychology, one that is 'non-moral' or 'post-moral'.M/p> |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (ix, 189 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780748694594 0748694595 1322059837 9781322059839 9781474400916 1474400914 |