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英语小说里的习惯
英文名称： Habit in the English Novel
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类别： 美术、绘画
作者： O'Toole, Sean
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出版社：Macmillan
出版地区： 英国
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简介
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.
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.
