Jill L. Matus

Shock, Memory and the Unconscious in Victorian Fiction

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This text argues that both Victorian psychology and the novel made significant contributions to both contemporary and current trauma theory.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. April 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 434g
• ISBN-13: 9780521310253
• ISBN-10: 0521310253
• Artikelnr.: 33608663

Inhaltsangabe

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.