| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 383 p.) |
| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction: Two Secrets -- or One? -- Phase One What Eliot Saw, What Spencer Said -- 2. "The Lifted Veil," A: George Eliot Stolen! -- 3. "The Lifted Veil," B: Revenge by Diagnosis -- 4. Fitful Reader -- 5. Dagger Sheathed, Partly -- Phase Two What the Philosopher Wrote (with a Friend's Rejoinder) -- 6. Electricity and the Man -- 7. Mystery of the Two Rooms -- 8. Enter Hughlings-Jackson -- 9. Good Strong Terrible Vision -- Phase Three What the Doctor Heard -- 10. Lewes the Fixer -- 11. Who Was Hughlings-Jackson's "Educated Patient"? -- 12. Ghost Stories -- Phase Four Exchange of Prisoners -- 13. Man between the Fits -- 14. Eliot Does Mischief (Again) -- 15. Life After the Georges -- 16. Conclusion: The Brain Is Not the Mind |
| Summary |
The Complicity of Friends offers an entirely original perspective within which to appreciate four eminent Victorians: Herbert Spencer, George Eliot, G.H. Lewes, and John Hughlings-Jackson. For the first time, I clarify the nature of Spencer's illness and demonstrate its repercussions in the lives and work of his three gifted friends |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 357-376) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed |
| Subject |
Eliot, George, 1819-1880 -- Friends and associates
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Eliot, George, 1819-1880 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Lewes, George Henry, 1817-1878.
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Spencer, Herbert, 1820-1903 -- Influence
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Jackson, J. Hughlings (John Hughlings), 1835-1911 |
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Eliot, George, 1819-1880 |
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Lewes, George Henry, 1817-1878 |
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Spencer, Herbert, 1820-1903 |
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Friendship
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Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2021680557 |
| ISBN |
9781611484199 |
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1611484197 |
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