Habit in the English Novel, 1850-1900

Lived Environments, Practices of the Self
2013
ISBN: 978-1-137-34939-2
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 212 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 426 g

Reihe: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture

This book offers new perspectives on the concept of habit in the nineteenth-century novel, delineating the complex, changing significance of the term and exploring the ways in which its meanings play out in a range of narratives, from Dickens to James.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

O'Toole, S.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Prosa, Erzählung, Roman, Prosaautoren
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements Introduction PART I: GENERATIVE HABITS 1 The Sensing Self: Dickens and the Space of Habit 2 Believing is Seeing: George Eliot's Past Effects PART II: PATTERNS OF CONSCIOUSNESS 3 Embodied Dispositions, Meredithian Slips 4 Passionate Possessions: Henry James's Queer Properties Coda: The Grain and the Heap, or the Afterlife of Habit Notes Bibliography Index

Über Autor(innen)

Sean O'Toole is Assistant Professor of English at the City University of New York, Baruch College, USA.