عنوان

Shock, memory and the unconscious in Victorian fiction /

(Number (ISBN

0511634854

(Number (ISBN

0511635303

(Number (ISBN

9780511634857

(Number (ISBN

9780511635304

Erroneous ISBN

0521760240

Erroneous ISBN

9780521760249

Number

b770837

Title Proper

Shock, memory and the unconscious in Victorian fiction /

General Material Designation

[Book]

First Statement of Responsibility

Jill L. Matus.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

New York :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Cambridge University Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2009.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

1 online resource (x, 247 pages)

Series Title

Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ;

Volume Designation

69

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 226-235) and index.

Text of Note

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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Text of Note

"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 midnineteenth 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."--Jacket.

Source for Acquisition/Subscription Address

MIL

Stock Number

233688

Title

Shock, memory and the unconscious in Victorian fiction.

International Standard Book Number

9780521760249

Emotions in literature.

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

English literature-- 19th century-- Psychological aspects.

Memory in literature.

Psychic trauma in literature.

Psychological fiction, English-- History and criticism.

Subconsciousness in literature.

Emotions in literature.

Emotions in literature.

Englisch

Englisch.

English literature-- 19th century.

English literature-- Psychological aspects.

English literature.

Erinnerung

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

Literatur

Literatur.

Memory in literature.

Memory in literature.

Motiv.

Psychic trauma in literature.

Psychisches Trauma

Psychisches Trauma-- Motiv-- Roman-- englischer.

Psychisches Trauma.

Psychological fiction, English.

Roman

Roman-- englischer-- Motiv-- Psychisches Trauma.

Subconsciousness in literature.

Trauma

Trauma in literature.

Unbewusstes

Unbewusstes

Unbewusstes.

Englisch.

7

LIT-- 004120

Number

Edition

Class number

Book number

Class number

System Code

Matus, Jill L.,1952-

Date of Transaction

20201206165602.0

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Electronic name

[Book]

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