Menu
Află starea comenzii
Contactați-ne
Carte Primitive Minds Anna Neill

Primitive Minds

Evolution and Spiritual Experience in the Victorian Novel

Autor: Anna Neill
Limbă: engleză
Legare: Carte broșată
Editura: Ohio State University Press
Disponibilitate: În depozitul extern
Expediem în 9-15 zile
217.62 lei
For twenty-first-century veterans of the evolution culture wars,Primitive Minds: Evolution and Spiri...

Informații despre carte

Autor
Anna Neill
Limbă
engleză
Legare
Carte - Carte broșată
Publicat
2016
Pagini
258
EAN
9780814254080
ISBN
081425408X
Enbook ID
15582177
Editura
Ohio State University Press
Greutate
396
Dimensiuni
229 x 151 x 18

Descriere completă

For twenty-first-century veterans of the evolution culture wars,Primitive Minds: Evolution and Spiritual Experience in the Victorian Novel, by Anna Neill, makes unlikely bedfellows of two Victorian "discoveries": evolutionary theory and spiritualism. Victorian science did much to uncover the physical substratum of mystical or dreamy experience, tracing spiritual states to a lower, reflex, or more evolutionarily primitive stage of consciousness. Yet science's pursuit of knowledge beyond sense-based evidence uncannily evoked powers associated with this primitive mind: the capacity to link events across space and time, to anticipate the future, to uncover elements of the forgotten past, and to see into the minds of others. Neill does not ask how the Victorians explained away spiritual experience through physiological psychology, but instead explores how physical explanation interacted with dreamy content in Victorian accounts of the mind's most exotic productions. This synthesis, she argues, was particularly acute in realist fiction, where, despite novelists' willingness to trace the nervous origins of individual behavior and its social consequences, activity in hidden regions of the mind enabled levels of perception inaccessible to ordinary waking thought. The authors in her study include Charlotte Brontë, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Thomas Hardy.

S-ar putea să te intereseze

WFLP Rarotonga & Cook Isl. 6.

139.54 lei

Cultural Studies and Anti-Consumerism

Sam Binkley
1 108.51 lei

8 Reasons Why I am No Longer A Democrat!

Dr. Glenn Pinckney Sr
96.92 lei

Seaside Divinity

Robert William Fraser
148.71 lei

African Elephant (Young Zoologist): A First Field Guide to the Big-Eared Giant of the Savanna

Neon Squid
67.60 lei

Clienții care au cumpărat această carte au mai cumpărat și

Stark in ... Arbeit und Wirtschaft - Ausgabe 2012

Frank Eichhorn
197.47 lei

McDevitt, J: Ich pfeif auf meinen Mann

44.02 lei

Photovoltaische Solarzellen: Vorteile, Typen und Installationsanleitung

Dalila Khlaifia
210.67 lei