Thinking without thinking in the Victorian novel /
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Author / Creator: | Ryan, Vanessa Lyndal. |
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Imprint: | Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012. |
Description: | viii, 243 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
Language: | English |
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Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8860756 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Introduction: Mind in Motion
- Part I. Rethinking Thinking
- 2. The Reflexive Mind: Wilkie Collins and "Unconscious Cerebration"
- Part II. Absent Minds, Absent Agents
- 3. Awareness: Reflex and Responsibility in George Eliot
- 4. Experience: Mind Work in William Carpenter, George Henry Lewes, and Herbert Spencer
- Part III. The Function of Fiction
- 5. Almost Knowledge: Henry James and Consciousness "Beyond the Margin"
- 6. Muscular Readers: George Meredith and "Effortful Style"
- 7. Novels for Psychologists: James Sully and the "Function of Fiction"
- 8. Conclusion: The Afterlife of Physiological Psychology
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index