Post-Romantic Consciousness

Dickens to Plath
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-349-50975-1
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan

Buch, Englisch, 204 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 283 g

In this sequel to his Romantic Consciousness, John Beer discusses further questionings of human consciousness; both the degree to which Dickens's conscious dramatizing differs from the subconscious workings of his psyche and the exploration of subliminal consciousness by nineteenth-century psychical researchers.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Beer, J.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents Questioning Consciousness Dickens's Unfinished Fiction Essaying the Heights, Sounding the Depths: F.W.H. Myers and Edmund Gurney James, Heidegger, Sartre, Havel: Other Versions of Being Woolf's Moments; Lawrence's Daemon Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes: The Hazards of Incompleteness Index

Über Autor(innen)

John Beer is Emeritus Professor of English Literature, University of Cambridge and Fellow of Peterhouse. His work on Romanticism includes Coleridge the Visionary, Coleridge's Poetic Intelligence, Blake's Humanism, Blake's Visionary Universe, Wordsworth and the Human Heart, Wordsworth in Time, Questioning Romanticism (ed.), Romantic Influences and Providence and Love.He has edited Coleridge's Poems for Everyman's Library, his Aids to Reflection for the Collected Works and is General Editor of the series Coleridge's Writings.