Habit in the English Novel, 1850-190...
O'Toole, Sean, (1972-)

 

  • Habit in the English Novel, 1850-1900 :Lived Environments, Practices of the Self /
  • 紀錄類型: 書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
    杜威分類號: 823/.8093384
    書名/作者: Habit in the English Novel, 1850-1900 : : Lived Environments, Practices of the Self // Sean O'Toole, Assistant Professor of English, Baruch College, USA.
    作者: O'Toole, Sean,
    面頁冊數: 1 online resource.
    標題: 1800 - 1899
    標題: English fiction - History and criticism. - 19th century
    標題: Habit in literature.
    標題: Literature - Philosophy.
    標題: Self in literature.
    標題: English fiction.
    標題: LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
    標題: LITERARY CRITICISM / General.
    ISBN: 1137349409 (electronic bk.)
    ISBN: 9781137349408 (electronic bk.)
    書目註: Includes bibliographical references and index.
    內容註: PART I: GENERATIVE HABITS -- 1 The Sensing Self: Dickens and the Space of Habit -- 2 Believing is Seeing: George Eliot's Past Effects -- PART II: PATTERNS OF CONSCIOUSNESS -- 3 Embodied Dispositions, Meredithian Slips -- 4 Passionate Possessions: Henry James's Queer Properties -- Coda: The Grain and the Heap, or the Afterlife of Habit.
    摘要、提要註: "The ancient philosophical concept of habit fixated and unsettled the Victorians in profoundly new ways, as advances in physiology and evolutionary theory sparked far-reaching debates about the threat of automatism and the proper mental training of the will. This book suggests that nineteenth-century novelists not only echoed these debates but intervened in them in unique, transformative, and strikingly modern ways. In attending closely to the enabling, generative potential of habit and its role in the creation of new perceptions and social identities, novelists from Dickens to James bequeathed a far more complex conception of the category than has yet been acknowledged, allowing for a rich phenomenology of the unpredictable, changeable modes of modern existence. Habit in the English Novel, 1850-1900 reconsiders what we have come to assume about the Victorian novel, including our own critical habits, in the wake of Freud and cultural modernism"--
    電子資源: http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9781137349408
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