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Author:

Neill, Anna, 1965-

Title:

Primitive minds : evolution and spiritual experience in the Victorian novel / Anna Neill.

Publisher:

Ohio State University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2013

Description:

x, 246 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

English fiction--19th century--History and criticism.
English literature--19th century--History and criticism.
Spiritualism in literature.
Psychology in literature.
Psychology and literature.
Realism in literature.
Literature and science.
English fiction.
English literature.
Literature and science.
Psychology and literature.
Psychology in literature.
Realism in literature.
Spiritualism in literature.
Englisch.
Roman.
Evolutionstheorie.
Spiritismus.
Psychologie.
Vision.
Traum.
Realismus.
1800 - 1899
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p 213-228) and index.

Contents:

Introduction: 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.

ISBN:

9780814293270 (cd)
0814293271 (cd)
0814212255 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780814212257 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)830030365

LCCN:

2013008650

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)