1st Edition
George Eliot and Nineteenth-Century Psychology Exploring the Unmapped Country
By Michael Davis
Copyright 2006
224 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
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In his study of Eliot as a psychological novelist, Michael Davis examines Eliot's writings in the context of a large volume of nineteenth-century scientific writing about the mind. Eliot, Davis argues, manipulated scientific language in often subversive ways to propose a vision of mind as both fundamentally connected to the external world and radically isolated from and independent of that world.... Read more
Contents: General editors' preface; Introduction; The mind and body; The history of the self: the formation of mind; The possibilities of emotion; The will, consciousness, the unconscious; The science of 'spirit': the mind and religious experience; Conclusion: 'Separate yet combined'; Bibliography; Index.
Biography
Michael Davis is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of the West of England, Bristol.
’... thought-provoking book... [Davis's] concentrated attention allows him to tease out subtle nuances that more general studies pass over.’ Victorian Studies
