Shock, Memory and the Unconscious in Victorian Fiction

Klappentext This text argues that both Victorian psychology and the novel made significant contributions to both contemporary and current trauma theory. Zusammenfassung In this text! Jill Matus goes beyond existing studies of the history of trauma to argue that both Victorian psychology and the novel were significant antecedents of twentieth-century trauma theory. In particular! the Victorian novel was instrumental in shaping the idea of the haunted! possessed and traumatized subject. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. Historicizing trauma; 2. Dream, trance and shock: Gaskell's North and South as a 'Condition-of Consciousness' novel; 3. Memory and aftermath in Dickens; 4. Overwhelming emotion in George Eliot; 5. Dissociation and multiple selves: memory, Myers and Stevenson's 'Shilling Shocker'; Afterword.

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• Authors: Jill L. Matus, Jill L. (University of Toronto) Matus
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2011
• EAN: 9780521310253
• ISBN: 978-0-521-31025-3
• No. of pages: 264
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Nineteent
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies