Search Results - "consciousness"

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

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I Know That You Know That I Know : Narrating Subjects from Moll Flanders to Marnie / by Butte, George, 1947-

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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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Poetry in Speech : Orality and Homeric Discourse / by Bakker, Egbert J.

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Exiles in the City : Hannah Arendt and Edward W. Said in Counterpoint / by Spanos, William V.

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Adventures of the Spirit : The Older Woman in the Works of Doris, Lessing, Margaret Atwood, and Other Contemporary Women Writers /

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Philosophies of Sex : Critical Essays on The Hermaphrodite /

Table of Contents: “…From self-erasure to self-possession : the development of Julia Ward Howe's feminist consciousness /…”
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American Studies as Transnational Practice : Turning toward the Transpacific /

Table of Contents: “…Transnationalism, planetary consciousness, and American studies /…”
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A Thousand Words : Portraiture, Style, and Queer Modernism / by Hovey, Jaime

Table of Contents: “…Picturing yourself: portraits, self-consciousness, and modernist style -- Talking pictures -- Caricature studies -- Forgery, or, Faking it -- Afterword: Looking back: modernism was yesterday.…”
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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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Textual Contraception : Birth Control and Modern American Fiction / by Capo, Beth Widmaier, 1973-

Table of Contents: “…"Lewd and lascivious" literature -- "As red and flaming as possible": radical rhetoric of the 1910s -- "For married women only": birth control and modern marriage -- "Conscious makers of people": achieving a free motherhood -- Reading the body, controlling the race: birth control and the eugenic impetus of the 1920s and 1930s -- The economics of desire and despair: birth control and the depression era -- Conclusion: textual contraception.…”
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Formative Fictions : Nationalism, Cosmopolitanism, and the Bildungsroman / by Boes, Tobias, 1976-

Table of Contents: “…The limits of national form : normativity and performativity in Bildungsroman criticism -- Apprenticeship of the novel : Goethe and the invention of history -- Epigonal consciousness : Stendhal, Immermann, and the "problem of generations" around 1830 -- Long-distance fantasies : Freytag, Eliot, and national literature in the age of empire -- Urban vernaculars : Joyce, Döblin, and the "individuating rhythm" of modernity -- Conclusion : apocalipsis cum figuris : Thomas Mann and the Bildungsroman at the ends of time.…”
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The Challenge of Bewilderment : Understanding and Representation in James, Conrad, and Ford / by Armstrong, Paul B., 1949-

Table of Contents: “…Jamesian bewilderment : the composing powers of consciousness -- Interpretation and ambiguity in The sacred fount -- Reality and/or interpretation in The ambassadors -- Part II. …”
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Bastards and Foundlings : Illegitimacy in Eighteenth-Century England / by Zunshine, Lisa

Table of Contents: “…Bastard daughters and foundling heroines : rewriting illegitimacy in The conscious lovers -- Moll Flanders and the English "shelter for bastards" -- Kicking out the cubs : the wrong heirs of Richardson's Clarissa -- Tom Jones : resisting the mythologization of bastardy -- Female philanthropy, the London Foundling Hospital, and Richardson's The history of Sir Charles Grandison -- The children "owned by none" : divided bastardy in Frances Burney's Evelina -- Harriet Smith in Brunswick Square : "common sense" bastardy in Austen's Emma -- Postscript : BBC rewrites Tom Jones's illegitimacy.…”
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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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Unfelt : The Language of Affect in the British Enlightenment / by Noggle, James

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : unfelt affect -- The insensible parts of Locke's essay -- David Hartley's ghost matter -- Vivacity and insensible association : Condillac and Hume -- Sentiment and secret consciousness : Haywood and Smith -- Unfeeling before sensibility -- External and invisible -- Insensible against involuntary in Burney -- Austen as coda -- The force of the thing : unfelt moeurs in French historiography -- The insensible revolution and Scottish historiography -- Gibbon in history -- The embrace of unfeeling -- Mandeville and the other happiness -- Feeling untaxed -- The money flow -- Invisible versus insensible -- Epilogue : insensible emergence of ideology.…”
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George Herbert's Lyrics / by Stein, Arnold (Arnold Sidney), 1915-2002

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Notes on 'Pilgrimage' : Dorothy Richardson Annotated / by Thomson, George H., 1924-

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On the Ruins of Babel : Architectural Metaphor in German Thought / by Purdy, Daniel L.

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Learning to Live with Crime : American Crime Narrative in the Neoconservative Turn / by Wilson, Christopher P. (Christopher Pierce), 1952-

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