George Eliot and nineteenth-century psychology

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"In his study of Eliot as a psychological novelist, Michael Davis examines Eliot's writings in the context of a large volume of nineteenth-century scientific writing about the mind. Eliot, Davis argues, manipulated scientific language in often subversive ways to propose a vision of mind as both fundamentally connected to the external world and radically isolated from and independent of that world. In showing the alignments between Eliot's work and the formulations of such key thinkers as Herbert Spencer, Charles Darwin, T.H. Huxley, and G.H. Lewes, Davis reveals how Eliot responds both creatively and critically to contemporary theories of mind, as she explores such fundamental issues as the mind/body relationship, the mind in evolutionary theory, the significance of reason and emotion, and consciousness."--Jacket.

subjects: English Psychological fiction,  History,  History and criticism,  Knowledge,  Psychology,  Psychology in literature,  Eliot, george, 1819-1880,  George,  1819-1880,  Criticism and interpretation,  Medicine in literature,  History, 19th Century,  Modern Literature,  Psychologie,  Histoire,  Psychologie dans la littérature,  Médecine dans la littérature,  Médecine,  LITERARY CRITICISM,  European,  English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh,  Knowledge and learning

People: George Eliot (1819-1880)

Places: Great Britain

Times: 19th century