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Shock, memory and the unconscious in Victorian fiction / Jill L. Matus.
- Matus, Jill L., 1952-
- Date
- 2009
- Books
About this work
Publication/Creation
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
Physical description
x, 247 pages ; 24 cm.
Contributors
Bibliographic information
Includes bibliographical references (p. 226-235) and index.
Contents
Introduction: the psyche in pain -- Historicizing trauma -- Dream and trance: Gaskell's North and south as a "condition-of-consciousness" novel -- Memory and aftermath: from Dicken's "The signalman" to The mystery of Edwin Drood -- Overwhelming emotion and psychic shock in George Eliot's The lifted veil and Daniel Deronda -- Dissociation and multiple selves: memory, Myers and Stevenson's "shilling shocker" -- Afterword on afterwards.
Languages
- English
Where to find it
Location Status History of MedicinePQK.AI.AA8Open shelves
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Identifiers
ISBN
- 9780521760249
- 0521760240