Shock, memory and the unconscious in Victorian fiction /

Shock, memory and the unconscious in Victorian fiction / Jill L. Matus.

"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. Alth...

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Main Author: Matus, Jill L., 1952-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Edition:First paperback edition.
Series:Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 69.
Subjects:
English literature > 19th century > Psychological aspects.
English literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Psychological fiction, English > History and criticism.
Memory in literature.
Subconsciousness in literature.
Emotions in literature.
Psychic trauma in literature.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: the psyche in pain
  • Historicizing trauma
  • Dream and trance: Gaskell's North and South as a "condition-of-consciousness" novel
  • Memory and aftermath: from Dicken's "The signalman" to The mystery of Edwin Drood
  • Overwhelming emotion and psychic shock in George Eliot's The lifted veil and Daniel Deronda
  • Dissociation and multiple selves: memory, Myers and Stevenson's "shilling shocker"
  • Afterword on afterwards.

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