Primitive minds : evolution and spiritual experience in the Victorian novel /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Neill, Anna, 1965-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Columbus : Ohio State University Press, [2013]
Subjects:	English fiction > 19th century > History and criticism. English literature > 19th century > History and criticism. Spiritualism in literature. Psychology in literature. Psychology and literature. Realism in literature. Literature and science.

Table of Contents:

Evolution and the dreamy mind
Charlotte Brontë's hypochondriacal heroines
Spirits and seizures in Bleak House and Our mutual friend
Suspended animation and second sight : Daniel Deronda and Silas Marner
Dreamy intuition and detective genius : Ezra Jennings and Sherlock Holmes
The end of the novel : naturalism and reverie in Tess of the d'Urbervilles and The return of the native.