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Shock, memory and the unconscious in Victorian fiction /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Shock, memory and the unconscious in Victorian fiction // Jill L. Matus.
remainder title:	Shock, Memory & the Unconscious in Victorian Fiction
Author:	Matus, Jill L.,
Description:	1 online resource (x, 247 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Subject:	English literature - Psychological aspects. - 19th century -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511635304
ISBN:	9780511635304 (ebook)

Shock, memory and the unconscious in Victorian fiction /
Matus, Jill L.,1952-

Shock, memory and the unconscious in Victorian fiction /Shock, Memory & the Unconscious in Victorian FictionJill L. Matus. - 1 online resource (x, 247 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). - Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ;69. - Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ;80..

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

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.

Jill Matus explores shock in Victorian fiction and psychology with startling results that reconfigure the history of trauma theory. Central to Victorian thinking about consciousness and emotion, shock is a concept that challenged earlier ideas about the relationship between mind and body. Although the new materialist psychology of the mid-nineteenth century made possible the very concept of a wound to the psyche - the recognition, for example, that those who escaped physically unscathed from train crashes or other overwhelming experiences might still have been injured in some significant way - it was Victorian fiction, with its complex explorations of the inner life of the individual and accounts of upheavals in personal identity, that most fully articulated the idea of the haunted, possessed and traumatized subject. This wide-ranging book reshapes our understanding of Victorian theories of mind and memory and reveals the relevance of nineteenth-century culture to contemporary theories of trauma.

ISBN: 9780511635304 (ebook)Subjects--Topical Terms:

799257
English literature
--Psychological aspects.--19th century

LC Class. No.: PR468.P68 / M38 2009

Dewey Class. No.: 820.9/353

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