Habit in the English novel, 1850-1900 : lived environments, practices of the self /
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...
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New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2013.
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| Series: | Palgrave studies in nineteenth-century writing and culture.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: An embedded history
- The sensing self : Dickens and the space of habit
- Believing is seeing : George Eliot's past effects
- Embodied dispositions, Meredithian slips
- Passionate possessions : Henry James's queer properties
- Coda: The grain and the heap, or the afterlife of habit.