Matus, Jill L., 1952-
Cambridge, UK New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
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Part of the series Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture 69;Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture 69.
Notes:

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 226-235) and index.
• Introduction: the psyche in pain — Historicizing trauma — Dream and trance: Gaskell’s North and south as a condition-of-consciousness novel — Memory and aftermath: from Dicken’s The signalman to The mystery of Edwin Drood — Overwhelming emotion and psychic shock in George Eliot’s The lifted veil and Daniel Deronda — Dissociation and multiple selves: memory, Myers and Stevenson’s shilling shocker — Afterword on afterwards.
• Jill Matus explores shock in Victorian fiction and psychology with startling results that reconfigure the history of trauma theory. Central to Victorian thinking about consciousness and emotion, shock is a concept that challenged earlier ideas about the relationship between mind and body. Although the new materialist psychology of the midnineteenth century made possible the very concept of a wound to the psyche – the recognition, for example, that those who escaped physically unscathed from train crashes or other overwhelming experiences might still have been injured in some significant way – it was Victorian fiction, with its complex explorations of the inner life of the individual and accounts of upheavals in personal identity, that most fully articulated the idea of the haunted, possessed and traumatized subject. This wide ranging book reshapes our understanding of Victorian theories of mind and memory and reveals the relevance of nineteenth century culture to contemporary theories of trauma. –BOOK JACKET.

Subjects:

• English literature — 19th century — Psychological aspects.
• English literature — 19th century — History and criticism.
• Psychological fiction, English — History and criticism.
• Memory in literature.
• Subconsciousness in literature.
• Emotions in literature.
• Psychic trauma in literature.
• Psychisches Trauma — Motiv — Roman — englischer. idsbb
• Roman — englischer — Motiv — Psychisches Trauma. idsbb
• Memory in literature. idszbzes
• Emotions in literature. idszbzes
• Trauma in literature. idszbzes
• English literature — 19th century. idszbzes
• Geschichte 1837-1901 swd
• Literatur swd
• Trauma (Motiv) swd
• Unbewusstes swd
• Englisch swd

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