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Embodied Selves
  • Language: en

Embodied Selves

  • Categories: Men

This anthology charts changing notions of selfhood and bodily identity in the emerging sciences and pseudo-sciences of psychology and psychiatry to help redraw our understanding of the complexity and range of Victorian psychological thought.

In the Secret Theatre of Home: Wilkie Collins, Sensation Narrative, and Nineteenth-Century Psychology
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 490

In the Secret Theatre of Home: Wilkie Collins, Sensation Narrative, and Nineteenth-Century Psychology

In his 1852 novel Basil, Wilkie Collins' narrator concludes that "those ghastly heart-tragedies laid open before me ... are not to be written, but ... are acted and reacted, scene by scene, year by year, in the secret theatre of home." Taking this memorable quote as her starting point, Jenny Bourne Taylor demonstrates how Victorian psychology is central to an understanding of the complexity and vitality of Collins' fiction, exploring the boundaries of mind/body, sanity/madness, and consciousness/unconsciousness. Taylor's depth of research and thoughtful analysis establishes the importance of Collins as a writer whose fiction challenges the cultural constructions of the nineteenth century, an...

The Cambridge Companion to the Fin de Siècle
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 229

The Cambridge Companion to the Fin de Siècle

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The Cambridge Companion to Wilkie Collins
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 188

The Cambridge Companion to Wilkie Collins

Wilkie Collins was one of the most popular writers of the nineteenth century. He is best known for The Woman in White, which inaugurated the sensation novel in the 1860s, and The Moonstone, one of the first detective novels; but he wrote over 20 novels, plays and short stories during a career that spanned four decades. This Companion offers a fascinating overview of Collins's writing. In a wide range of essays by leading scholars, it traces the development of his career, his position as a writer and his complex relation to contemporary cultural movements and debates. Collins's exploration of the tensions which lay beneath Victorian society is analysed through a variety of critical approaches. A chronology and guide to further reading are provided, making this book an indispensable guide for all those interested in Wilkie Collins and his work.

The Nineteenth-century Novel
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 594

The Nineteenth-century Novel

Provides a valuable selection of nineteenth- century essays on the art of fiction. These contemporary essays are strategically placed alongside a selection of modern critical responses to twelve familiar nineteenth-century novels.

The Beth Book
  • Language: en

The Beth Book

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Views Beyond the Border Country
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 380

Views Beyond the Border Country

First Published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The Cambridge Companion to English Literature, 1830-1914
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 347

The Cambridge Companion to English Literature, 1830-1914

A volume of essays on Victorian themes, genres and authors, aimed at students and lecturers.

Making All Black Lives Matter
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 200

Making All Black Lives Matter

"A powerful — and personal — account of the movement and its players."—The Washington Post “This perceptive resource on radical black liberation movements in the 21st century can inform anyone wanting to better understand . . . how to make social change.”—Publishers Weekly The breadth and impact of Black Lives Matter in the United States has been extraordinary. Between 2012 and 2016, thousands of people marched, rallied, held vigils, and engaged in direct actions to protest and draw attention to state and vigilante violence against Black people. What began as outrage over the 2012 murder of Trayvon Martin and the exoneration of his killer, and accelerated during the Ferguson upri...

Domestic Murder in Nineteenth-Century England
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 195

Domestic Murder in Nineteenth-Century England

Examining novels, trial transcripts, medico-legal documents, broadsides, criminal and scientific writing, illustration and, notably, Victorian melodrama, Bridget Walsh focuses on the relationship between the domestic sphere, so central to Victorian values, and the desecration of that space by the act of murder. Her book tackles crucial questions related to Victorian ideas of nationhood, national health, inequality, newspaper coverage of murder, contested models of masculinity and the portrayal of the female domestic murderer at the fin de siècle.