George Eliot and Nineteenth-Century Psychology: Exploring the Unmapped Country

ISBN-13: 9780367887865 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 224 str.

Michael Davis

Opis

This study of Eliot as a psychological novelist examines her writings in the context of a large volume of nineteenth-century scientific writing. Michael Davis aligns Eliot's work with the formulations of such key thinkers as Herbert Spencer, Charles Darwin, T. H. Huxley, and G. H. Lewes, showing how Eliot manipulated scientific language and pointin

Recenzje

’... thought-provoking book... [Davis's] concentrated attention allows him to tease out subtle nuances that more general studies pass over.’ Victorian Studies

Spis treści

Contents: General editors' preface; Introduction; The mind and body; The history of the self: the formation of mind; The possibilities of emotion; The will, consciousness, the unconscious; The science of 'spirit': the mind and religious experience; Conclusion: 'Separate yet combined'; Bibliography; Index.

O autorze

Michael Davis is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of the West of England, Bristol.