| Description |
1 online resource (x, 247 pages). |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Series |
Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 69
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Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 69.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 226-235) and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Summary |
"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. Although the new materialist psychology of the midnineteenth century made possible the very concept of a wound to the psyche - the recognition, for example, that those who escaped physically unscathed from train crashes or other overwhelming experiences might still have been injured in some significant way - it was Victorian fiction, with its complex explorations of the inner life of the individual and accounts of upheavals in personal identity, that most fully articulated the idea of the haunted, possessed and traumatized subject. This wide ranging book reshapes our understanding of Victorian theories of mind and memory and reveals the relevance of nineteenth century culture to contemporary theories of trauma."--Jacket. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
English literature -- 19th century -- Psychological aspects.
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English literature. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
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Psychological aspects. |
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English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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Psychological fiction, English -- History and criticism.
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Psychological fiction, English. |
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Memory in literature.
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Memory in literature. |
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Subconsciousness in literature.
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Subconsciousness in literature. |
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Emotions in literature.
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Emotions in literature. |
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Psychic trauma in literature.
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Psychic trauma in literature. |
| Chronological Term |
Geschichte 1837-1901 |
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1800-1899 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Matus, Jill L., 1952- Shock, memory and the unconscious in Victorian fiction. Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009 9780521760249 (DLC) 2009282563 (OCoLC)351329773 |
| ISBN |
9780511634857 (electronic book) |
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0511634854 (electronic book) |
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0511635303 (electronic book) |
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9780511635304 (electronic book) |
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9780521760249 |
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0521760240 |
| Standard No. |
9786612336881 |
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