Shock, Memory and the Unconscious in Victorian Fiction

Shock, Memory and the Unconscious in Victorian Fiction
Title Shock, Memory and the Unconscious in Victorian Fiction PDF eBook
Author Jill L. Matus
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 480
Release 2009-09-10
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1107376467

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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 mid-nineteenth 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.

The Ashgate Research Companion to Thomas Hardy

The Ashgate Research Companion to Thomas Hardy
Title The Ashgate Research Companion to Thomas Hardy PDF eBook
Author Rosemarie Morgan
Publisher Routledge
Pages 712
Release 2016-03-23
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1317041283

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In The Ashgate Research Companion to Thomas Hardy, some of the most prominent Hardy specialists working today offer an overview of Hardy scholarship and suggest new directions in Hardy studies. The contributors cover virtually every area relevant to Hardy's fiction and poetry, including philosophy, palaeontology, biography, science, film, popular culture, beliefs, gender, music, masculinity, tragedy, topography, psychology, metaphysics, illustration, bibliographical studies and contemporary response. While several collections have surveyed the Hardy landscape, no previous volume has been composed especially for scholars and advanced graduate students. This companion is specially designed to aid original research on Hardy and serve as the critical basis for Hardy studies in the new millennium. Among the features are a comprehensive bibliography that includes not only works in English but, in acknowledgment of Hardy's explosion in popularity around the world, also works in languages other than English.

Shock, Memory and the Unconscious in Victorian Fiction

Shock, Memory and the Unconscious in Victorian Fiction
Title Shock, Memory and the Unconscious in Victorian Fiction PDF eBook
Author Jill L. Matus
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 0
Release 2011-06-30
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 9780521310253

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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 mid-nineteenth 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.

An Underground History of Early Victorian Fiction

An Underground History of Early Victorian Fiction
Title An Underground History of Early Victorian Fiction PDF eBook
Author Gregory Vargo
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 299
Release 2018
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1107197856

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Explores the journalism and fiction appearing in the early Victorian working-class periodical press and its influence on mainstream literature.

The Late Victorian Gothic

The Late Victorian Gothic
Title The Late Victorian Gothic PDF eBook
Author Hilary Grimes
Publisher Routledge
Pages 196
Release 2016-03-03
Genre Science
ISBN 1317026268

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Examining the automatic writing of the spiritualist séances, discursive technologies like the telegraph and the photograph, various genres and late nineteenth-century mental science, this book shows the failure of writers' attempts to use technology as a way of translating the supernatural at the fin de siècle. Hilary Grimes shows that both new technology and explorations into the ghostly aspects of the mind made agency problematic. When notions of agency are suspended, Grimes argues, authorship itself becomes uncanny. Grimes's study is distinct in both recognizing and crossing strict boundaries to suggest that Gothic literature itself resists categorization, not only between literary periods, but also between genres. Treating a wide range of authors - Henry James, Rudyard Kipling, Arthur Conan Doyle, George Du Maurier, Vernon Lee, Mary Louisa Molesworth, Sarah Grand, and George Paston - Grimes shows how fin-de-siècle works negotiate themes associated with the Victorian and Modernist periods such as psychical research, mass marketing, and new technologies. With particular attention to texts that are not placed within the Gothic genre, but which nevertheless conceal Gothic themes, The Late Victorian Gothic demonstrates that the end of the nineteenth century produced a Gothicism specific to the period.

Time and the Moment in Victorian Literature and Society

Time and the Moment in Victorian Literature and Society
Title Time and the Moment in Victorian Literature and Society PDF eBook
Author Sue Zemka
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 301
Release 2011-11-24
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1139503073

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Sudden changes, opportunities, or revelations have always carried a special significance in Western culture, from the Greek and later the Christian kairos to Evangelical experiences of conversion. This fascinating book explores the ways in which England, under the influence of industrializing forces and increased precision in assessing the passing of time, attached importance to moments, events that compress great significance into small units of time. Sue Zemka questions the importance that modernity invests in momentary events, from religion to aesthetics and philosophy. She argues for a strain in Victorian and early modern novels critical of the values the age invested in moments of time, and suggests that such novels also offer a correction to contemporary culture and criticism, with its emphasis on the momentary event as an agency of change.

Biopolitics and Animal Species in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Science

Biopolitics and Animal Species in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Science
Title Biopolitics and Animal Species in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Science PDF eBook
Author Matthew Rowlinson
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 444
Release 2024-01-31
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1009409921

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Principles of species taxonomy were contested ground throughout the nineteenth century, including those governing the classification of humans. Matthew Rowlinson shows that taxonomy was a literary and cultural project as much as a scientific one. His investigation explores animal species in Romantic writers including Gilbert White and Keats, taxonomies in Victorian lyrics and the nonsense botanies and alphabets of Edward Lear, and species, race, and other forms of aggregated life in Darwin's writing, showing how the latter views these as shaped by unconscious agency. Engaging with theoretical debates at the intersection of animal studies and psychoanalysis, and covering a wide range of science writing, poetry, and prose fiction, this study shows the political and psychic stakes of questions about species identity and management. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.