Habit in the English Novel, 1850-1900

Lived Environments, Practices of the Self

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Gebonden, blz. | Engels
Palgrave Macmillan UK | e druk, 2013
ISBN13: 9781137349392
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Palgrave Macmillan UK e druk, 2013 9781137349392
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This book offers new perspectives on the concept of habit in the nineteenth-century novel, delineating the complex, changing significance of the term and exploring the ways in which its meanings play out in a range of narratives, from Dickens to James.

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ISBN13:9781137349392
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:gebonden
Uitgever:Palgrave Macmillan UK

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Acknowledgements Introduction 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 Notes Bibliography Index

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