Search Results - "consciousness"

Lost Causes : Historical Consciousness in Victorian Literature / by Jones, Jason B., 1971-

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Imagining Minds : The Neuro-Aesthetics of Austen, Eliot, and Hardy / by Young, Kay, 1959-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : the integrated mind -- Jane Austen and self-consciousness -- "A mind lively and at ease" : imagination and Emma -- "You pierce my soul" : feeling embodied and persuasion -- George Eliot and other-consciousness -- "A voice like music" : the problem of other minds and Middlemarch -- "Beloved ideas made flesh" : the embodied mind and Daniel Deronda -- Thomas Hardy and nonintrospective consciousness -- "Now I am melancholy mad" : mood and Jude the obscure -- "That blue narcotic haze" : dreams, dissociation, and Tess of the d'Urbervilles -- Coda : the neurology of narrative.…”
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Feminist Realism at the Fin de Siecle : The Influence of the Late-Victorian Woman's Press on the Development of the Novel / by Youngkin, Molly, 1970-

Table of Contents: “…The woman's press at the fin de siecle -- "They are learning to think ... for themselves" : consciousness raised -- "What the girl says" : spoken word as political tool -- Women at work, at war, and on the go : feminist action -- "The realistic method in its best expression" : successful representations of woman's agency and literary reputations -- Engaging and shaping modernism.…”
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Melville's Thematics of Form : The Great Art of Telling the Truth / by Dryden, Edgar A.

Table of Contents: “…A note on texts -- Metaphysics and the art of the novel -- Portraits of the artist as a young man: narrative form in Melville's early novels -- Ishmael as teller: self-conscious form in Moby-Dick -- The failure of the author-hero: narrative form in Pierre and Israel Potter -- The novelist as impostor: subversive form in The confidence-man -- Epilogue.…”
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Unnatural Voices : Extreme Narration in Modern and Contemporary Fiction / by Richardson, Brian, 1953-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Transgressing self and voice-contemporary fiction and the death of the narrator -- "At first you feel a bit lost": the varieties of second person narration -- Class and consciousness: "We" narration from Conrad to postcolonial fiction -- I, etcetera: multiperson narration and the range of contemporary narrators -- Three extreme forms of narration and a note on postmodern unreliability -- Unnatural narration in contemporary drama -- Implied authors, historical authors, and the transparent narrator: toward a new model of the narrative transaction -- Conclusion: Voicing the unspeakable.…”
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Hawthorne and the Real : Bicentennial Essays /

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Scotland, Britain, Empire : Writing the Highlands, 1760-1860 / by McNeil, Kenneth

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Financial Speculation in Victorian Fiction : Plotting Money and the Novel Genre, 1815-1901 / by Wagner, Tamara S., 1976-

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