Thinking About Other People in Nineteenth-Century British Writing

Informationen zum Autor Adela Pinch is Associate Professor of English and Women's Studies, University of Michigan. Klappentext This book explores a common concern among Victorian writers about the power of one person thinking about another. Zusammenfassung This book links literary works to psychological and philosophical beliefs of the Victorian era! by demonstrating a common concern among poets! novelists! philosophers! psychologists! and devotees of the occult with the question of whether thinking about someone can cause something to happen to them. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: love thinking; 1. Thinking as action: James Frederick Ferrier's Philosophy of Consciousness; 2. Foam, aura, or melody: theorizing mental force in Victorian Britain; 3. Thinking in the second person in nineteenth-century poetry; 4. Thinking and knowing in Patmore and Meredith; 5. Daniel Deronda and the omnipotence of thought; Conclusion: the ethics of belief and the poetics of thinking about another person.

Product details

• Authors: Adela Pinch, Adela (University of Michigan Pinch, Pinch Adela
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 21.11.2013
• EAN: 9781107650763
• ISBN: 978-1-107-65076-3
• No. of pages: 262
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Nineteent; Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900