Dickens and Victorian psychology : introspection, first-person narration, and the mind /

"Dickens and Victorian Psychology: Introspection, First-Person Narration, and the Mind positions Charles Dickens's fiction in the midst of Victorian psychological debate, tracking Dickens's increasing reliance over the course of his career on the introspective mode, those moments--fro...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Stolte, Tyson (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2022]
Subjects:	Dickens, Charles, > 1812-1870 > Criticism and interpretation. Dickens, Charles, > 1812-1870 Narration (Rhetoric) > History > 19th century. Psychology in literature. Narration > Histoire > 19e siècle. Psychologie dans la littérature. Great Britain. Europe. HISTORY. Physiological Psychology. PSYCHOLOGY. Narration (Rhetoric) Psychology Psychology in literature 1800-1899 Electronic books. History
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Table of Contents:

Cover
Titlepage
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Dickens and Victorian Psychology
1 Mind Reading: Thought, Introspection, and the Legibility of the Body in Nicholas Nickleby and Martin Chuzzlewit
2 ""What Is Natural in Me'': David Copperfield, Faculty Psychology, and the Association of Ideas
3 Mysteries of the Mind: First-Person Narration, Physiognomy, and Bleak House
4 The Latent and the Manifest: Faculty Psychology, Psycho-Physiology, and the Echoes of Evolution in Great Expectations
5 "An Earthy Flavor Throughout'': Double Consciousness and the Redefinition of the Soul in The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Afterword
Bibliography
Index