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BL
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995155
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b749525
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| Main Entry
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Beer, John B.
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Post-Romantic consciousness : : Dickens to Plath /\ John Beer.
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| Publication Statement
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Houndmills [U.K.] ;New York :: Palgrave Macmillan,, 2003.
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xii, 204 pages ;; 23 cm
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1403905185
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: 9781403905185
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-197) and index.
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| Contents
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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.
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"Post-Romantic Consciousness follows on from Beer's study Romantic Consciousness, discussing further investigations into human nature. As Darwinism gained ground, undermining Romantic modes of thought, questions concerning human consciousness remained. In Dickens, for example, the struggle between a consciously affectionate and benevolent view of the world and an unconscious attraction to the criminal and violent culminated in his failure to complete his last novel. Similar contradictions can be traced in the Society for Psychical Research, whose members hoped that scientific investigation of abnormal psychical experiences might produce further insights into human nature. F.W.H. Myers's postulation of a 'subliminal self' in all human beings suggested one solution, while William James and European thinkers such as Heidegger, Sartre and Havel explored their own conceptions of Being. Romantic influence persisted, however: Virginia Woolf, with her 'moments of Being', and Lawrence's insistence on the existence of a further level of consciousness in human beings, were followed in time by Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, demonstrating a dialectic between her multifarious 'modern' consciousness and his rooted, physical sense of Being."--Jacket.
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Dickens, Charles,1812-1870-- Knowledge-- Psychology.
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Plath, Sylvia-- Knowledge-- Psychology.
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Dickens, Charles,1812-1870-- Et la psychologie.
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Plath, Sylvia-- Et la psychologie.
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Dickens, Charles,1812-1870
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Plath, Sylvia.
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Consciousness in literature.
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English literature-- 20th century-- History and criticism.
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Psychology in literature.
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Subconsciousness in literature.
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Conscience dans la littérature.
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Inconscient dans la littérature.
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Littérature anglaise-- 20e siècle-- Histoire et critique.
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Psychologie dans la littérature.
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Consciousness in literature.
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English literature.
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Psychology in literature.
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Psychology.
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Subconsciousness in literature.
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Bewustzijn.
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Engels.
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Letterkunde.
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Zijn (filosofie)
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| Dewey Classification
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820.9/353
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| LC Classification
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PR478.C65B44 2003
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18.05bcl
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820.935323
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