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Author Alkana, Joseph, 1953-

Title The social self : Hawthorne, Howells, William James, and nineteenth-century psychology / Joseph Alkana.

Publication Info. Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, [1997]
©1997

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Description 1 online resource (167 pages)
Physical Medium monochrome
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 133-163) and index.
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Reproduction Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL
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Contents Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Translating the Self: Between Discord and Individualism in American Literary History; 2 Hawthorne's Drama of the Self: Antebellum Psychology and Sociality; 3 ""But the Past Was Not Dead"": Aesthetics, History, and Community in Grandfather's Chair and The Scarlet Letter; 4. The Altrurian Romances: Evolution and Immigration in Howells's Utopia; 5 The Ironic Construction of Selfhood: William James's Principles of Psychology; 6 Selfhood, Pragmatism, and Literary Studies: Who Do We Think We Are? And What Do We Think We're Doing?
Summary American literary history of the nineteenth-century as a conflict between individualistic writers and a conformist society. In The Social Self, Joseph Alkana argues that such a dichotomy misrepresents the views of many authors. Sudden changes caused by the industrial revolution, urban development, increased immigration, and regional conflicts were threatening to fragment the community, and such writers as Nathaniel Hawthorne, William James, and William Dean Howells were deeply concerned about social cohesion. Alkana persuasively reintroduces Common Sense philosophy and Jamesian psychology as w.
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Subject Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864 -- Knowledge and learning -- Psychology.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864.
Psychology.
Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920 -- Knowledge and learning -- Psychology.
Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920.
James, William, 1842-1910 -- Influence.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864 -- Et la psychologie.
Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920 -- Et la psychologie.
James, William, 1842-1910.
James, William, 1842-1910 -- Influence.
American fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
American fiction.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Social psychology and literature -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Social psychology and literature.
United States.
History.
Psychological fiction, American -- History and criticism.
Psychological fiction, American.
American literature -- Psychological aspects.
American literature -- Psychological aspects.
Psychology in literature.
Psychology in literature.
Self in literature.
Self in literature.
Chronological Term 1800 - 1899
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Alkana, Joseph, 1953- Social self. Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, ©1997 (DLC) 96016404 (OCoLC)34545353
ISBN 9780813157337 electronic book
0813157331 electronic book
0813119715 alkaline paper
9780813119717 alkaline paper