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03776aam a22005778i 4500 001 065C4E781D3311E4AFEA258CDAD10320 003 SILO 005 20140806010537 008 130927s2013 nyu b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2013038121 020 $a 1137349395 (hardback) 020 $a 9781137349392 (hardback) 035 $a (OCoLC)848162890 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d YDXCP $d BTCTA $d UKMGB $d OCLCO $d BDX $d OCLCF $d CHVBK $d UBY $d OCLCO $d XII $d COO $d ZCU $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PR878.S427 $b O86 2013 082 00 $a 823/.8093384 $2 23 084 $a LIT004120 $a LIT004120 $2 bisacsh 100 1 $a O'Toole, Sean, $d 1972- $e author. 245 10 $a Habit in the English novel, 1850-1900 : $b lived environments, practices of the self / $c Sean O'Toole, Assistant Professor of English, Baruch College, City University of New York, USA. 264 1 $a New York : $b Palgrave Macmillan, $c 2013. 300 $a xii, 212 pages $b illustrations ; $c 23 cm 490 1 $a Palgrave studies in nineteenth-century writing and culture 520 $a "The ancient philosophical concept of habit fixated and unsettled the Victorians in profoundly new ways, as advances in physiology and evolutionary theory sparked far-reaching debates about the threat of automatism and the proper mental training of the will. This book suggests that nineteenth-century novelists not only echoed these debates but intervened in them in unique, transformative, and strikingly modern ways. In attending closely to the enabling, generative potential of habit and its role in the creation of new perceptions and social identities, novelists from Dickens to James bequeathed a far more complex conception of the category than has yet been acknowledged, allowing for a rich phenomenology of the unpredictable, changeable modes of modern existence. Habit in the English Novel, 1850-1900 reconsiders what we have come to assume about the Victorian novel, including our own critical habits, in the wake of Freud and cultural modernism"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 194-204) and index. 505 0 $a Introduction: An embedded history -- The sensing self : Dickens and the space of habit -- Believing is seeing : George Eliot's past effects -- Embodied dispositions, Meredithian slips -- Passionate possessions : Henry James's queer properties -- Coda: The grain and the heap, or the afterlife of habit. 650 0 $a English fiction $y 19th century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Habit in literature. 650 0 $a Self in literature. 650 0 $a Literature $x Philosophy. 600 10 $a Dickens, Charles, $d 1812-1870 $x Criticism and interpretation. 600 10 $a Eliot, George, $d 1819-1880 $x Criticism and interpretation. 600 10 $a Meredith, George, $d 1828-1909 $x Criticism and interpretation. 600 10 $a James, Henry, $d 1843-1916 $x Criticism and interpretation. 650 7 $a LITERARY CRITICISM / General. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a English fiction. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00910817 650 7 $a Habit. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00950030 650 7 $a Literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00999953 650 7 $a Literature $x Philosophy. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01000005 650 7 $a Self. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01111441 650 7 $a Englisch. $2 gnd 650 7 $a Roman. $2 gnd 650 7 $a Gewohnheit. $2 idsbb 648 7 $a 1800 - 1899 $2 fast 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 830 0 $a Palgrave studies in nineteenth-century writing and culture. 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231020013107.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20160826093553.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=065C4E781D3311E4AFEA258CDAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search