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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stolte, Tyson, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychology in literature.

Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870--Criticism and interpretation.

Dickens, Charles.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (289 pages)

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2022]

Summary:

'Dickens and Victorian Psychology' 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 - from free indirect discourse to first-person narration - in which Dickens attempts to represent the inner view of his characters' minds.

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.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2022.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on October 7, 2022).

ISBN:

0-19-194922-1

0-19-267426-9

0-19-267425-0