Title Habit in the English Novel, 1850-1900 : Lived Environments, Practices of the Self / Sean O'Toole, Assistant Professor of English, Baruch College, USA

Published New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013

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Description 1 online resource Series Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture Palgrave studies in nineteenth-century writing and culture. Contents 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 Summary "The ancient philosophical concept of habit fixated and unsettled the Victorians in profoundly new ways, as advances in physiology and evolutionary theory sparked far-reaching debates about the threat of automatism and the proper mental training of the will. This book suggests that nineteenth-century novelists not only echoed these debates but intervened in them in unique, transformative, and strikingly modern ways. In attending closely to the enabling, generative potential of habit and its role in the creation of new perceptions and social identities, novelists from Dickens to James bequeathed a far more complex conception of the category than has yet been acknowledged, allowing for a rich phenomenology of the unpredictable, changeable modes of modern existence. Habit in the English Novel, 1850-1900 reconsiders what we have come to assume about the Victorian novel, including our own critical habits, in the wake of Freud and cultural modernism"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism Self in literature. Habit in literature. Literature -- Philosophy. Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers -- English. Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 -- English. LITERARY CRITICISM -- General. LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. Literature. English fiction Habit in literature Literature -- Philosophy Self in literature Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 9781137349408 1137349409

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