Amnesiac selves : nostalgia, forgetting, and British fiction, 1810-1870

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Amnesiac selves : nostalgia, forgetting, and British fiction, 1810-1870

Nicholas Dames

Oxford University Press, 2001

  • pbk.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-292) and index

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ISBN 9780195143577

内容説明

With Joyce, Proust, and Faulkner in mind, we have come to understand the novel as a form with intimate ties to the impulses and processes of memory. This study contends that this common perception is an anachronism that distorts our view of the novel. Based on an investigation of representative novels, Amnesiac Selves shows that the Victorian novel bears no such secure relation to memory, and, in fact, it tries to hide, evade, and eliminate remembering. Dames argues that the notable scarcity and distinct unease of representations of remembrance in the nineteenth-century British novel signal an art form struggling to define and construct new concepts of memory. By placing nineteenth-century British fiction from Jane Austen to Wilkie Collins alongside a wide variety of Victorian psychologies and theories of mind, Nicholas Dames evokes a novelistic world, and a culture, before modern memory - one dedicated to a nostalgic evasion of detailed recollection which our time has largely forgotten.
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pbk. ISBN 9780195173093

内容説明

In its nuanced examination of a wide variety of Victorian theories of mind, including physiognomy, physiology, associationism, and cognitive philosophies, Amnesiac Selves draws a powerful portrait of the interaction between psychology and the novel in the years 1810-1870. Dames demonstrates the crucial role that novels played in forming a habit of diluting remembrance into secure, sentimental, and above all communal memories, habits that live on in the nostalgia still felt by their readers. In tracing the formative nostalgias of canonical British fiction, this study recalls for us what these novels so often ask us to forget. Provocative and original, Amnesiac Selves constitutes a major advance in studies of Victorian culture and literature.

目次

  • INTRODUCTION:READING NOSTALGIA
  • CONCLUSION: NOSTALGIC READING

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