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Habit in the English novel, 1850-1900 :

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9781137349392 (hardcover)

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9781349467907

Erroneous ISBN

9781137349408 (eBook)

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b395414

Title Proper

Habit in the English novel, 1850-1900 :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

lived environments, practices of the self /

First Statement of Responsibility

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

Edition Statement

1st edition.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

xii, 212 pages :

Other Physical Details

illustrations ;

Dimensions

23 cm.

Series Title

Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 194-204) and index.

Text of Note

Machine generated contents note: -- 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.

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"The ancient philosophical concept of habit fixated and unsettled the Victorians in profoundly new ways, as advances in physiology and evolutionary theory sparked far-reaching debates about the threat of automatism and the proper mental training of the will. This book suggests that nineteenth-century novelists not only echoed these debates but intervened in them in unique, transformative, and strikingly modern ways. In attending closely to the enabling, generative potential of habit and its role in the creation of new perceptions and social identities, novelists from Dickens to James bequeathed a far more complex conception of the category than has yet been acknowledged, allowing for a rich phenomenology of the unpredictable, changeable modes of modern existence. Habit in the English Novel, 1850-1900 reconsiders what we have come to assume about the Victorian novel, including our own critical habits, in the wake of Freud and cultural modernism"--

English fiction-- 19th century-- History and criticism.

Habit in literature.

Literature-- Philosophy.

Self in literature.

LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.

LITERARY CRITICISM / General.

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O'Toole, Sean,1972-

Date of Transaction

20160726140219.0

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[Book]

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