Amnesiac Selves

Nostalgia, Forgetting, and British Fiction, 1810-1870
Erscheinungsjahr 2003
ISBN: 978-0-19-517309-3
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 308 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 509 g

In its nuanced examination of a wide variety of Victorian theories of mind, including physiognomy, physiology, associationism, and cognitive philosophies, 'Amnesiac Selves' draws a portrait of the interaction between psychology and the novel in the years 1810-1870.INTRODUCTION:READING NOSTALGIA; 1. Austen's Nostalgics; 2. Amnesiac Bodies: Phrenology, Physiognomy, and Memory in Charlotte Bronte; 3. Associated Fictions:Dickens, Thackeray, and Mid-Century Fictional Autobiography; 4. The Birth of Amnesia: Collins, Sensation, Forgetting; 5. The Unremembered Past: Eliot's Romola and Amnesiac Histories; CONCLUSION: NOSTALGIC READING

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dames, Nicholas

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Prosa, Erzählung, Roman, Prosaautoren

Über Autor(innen)

Nicholas Dames is Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University