Habit in the English Novel, 1850-1900: Lived Environments, Practices of the Self

ISBN-13: 9781137349392 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 228 str.

Sean OToole

Opis

This book offers new perspectives on the concept of habit in the nineteenth-century novel, delineating the complex, changing significance of the term and exploring the ways in which its meanings play out in a range of narratives, from Dickens to James.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements Introduction PART I: GENERATIVE HABITS 1 The Sensing Self: Dickens and the Space of Habit 2 Believing is Seeing: George Eliot's Past Effects PART II: PATTERNS OF CONSCIOUSNESS 3 Embodied Dispositions, Meredithian Slips 4 Passionate Possessions: Henry James's Queer Properties Coda: The Grain and the Heap, or the Afterlife of Habit Notes Bibliography Index

O autorze

Sean O'Toole is Assistant Professor of English at the City University of New York, Baruch College, USA.