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Rubber Bands and Old Ladies
Full text linkAlso CSST Working Paper #102.http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/51276/1/511.pd
Gesa Stedman. Stemming the Torrent: Expression and Control in the Victorian Discourses on Emotions, 1830–1872. Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate. 2002. Pp. X, 275. $79.95. ISBN 0-7546-0643-0.
No full textThe Appeal of Panpsychism in Victorian Britain
No full textThis article argues that current trends in the humanities that embrace panpsychism, vibrant matter, object-oriented ontologies, and extended or dispersed conceptions of consciousness, could benefit from an examination of Victorian debates about panpsychism. The article does this by exploring panpsychism’s relation to Victorian theories of evolution, late nineteenth-century idealism, and above all to conversations about desire, will, and consciousness. The article suggests further that understanding Victorian panpsychism can illuminate key aspects of Victorian aesthetics: detail, pattern, and dispersal. Authors discussed include philosophers W.K. Clifford, William James, and May Sinclair; the article then turns to Victorian translations of Lucretius, the poetry of Swinburne, the designs of William Morris, and the literary theory of Vernon Lee
Rachel Ablow, ed.The Feeling of Reading: Affective Experience and Victorian Literature. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2010. ISBN: 978-0-472-05107-6. Price: US$29.95
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