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Second sight the visionary imagination in late Victorian literature / by Maxwell, Catherine, 1962-

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Primitive Minds Evolution and Spiritual Experience in the Victorian Novel / by Neill, Anna, 1965-

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.…”
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Primitive Minds : Evolution and Spiritual Experience in the Victorian Novel / by Neill, Anna, 1965-

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.…”
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Come buy, come buy shopping and the culture of consumption in Victorian women's writing / by Lysack, Krista

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: danger, delight, and Victorian women's shopping -- Goblin markets: women shoppers and the East in London's West End -- Lady Audley's shopping disorders -- Middlemarch and the extravagant domestic spender: managing an epic life -- To those who love them best: the erotics of connoisseurship in Michael Field's Sight and song -- Votes for women and the tactics of consumption -- Afterword: Becoming Elizabeth Dalloway: the future of shopping.…”
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