George Eliot and nineteenth-century psychology : exploring the unmapped country

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Cover Half Title Title Copyright Contents General Editors’ Preface Acknowledgements Introduction 1 The Mind and Body The Power of the Body The Unpredictable Subject: Eliot’s Physical Language of the Self 2 The History of the Self: The Formation of Mind Instinct and Heredity: Darwin Eliot and Spencer: Memory and the Formation of the Mind 3 The Possibilities of Emotion Emotion and the Body Emotion and the Social Organism The Fluidity of Emotion Emotion, Reason and the Seed within the Self Containing Emotion: Deronda 4 The Will, Consciousness, the Unconscious The Problematic Concept of the Will The Will and ‘Personality’ The Conscious Mind The Unconscious 5 The Science of ‘Spirit’: The Mind and Religious Experience The Context of Eliot’s Faith Faith and Form Faith and the Self: Romola Faith and Science: Daniel Deronda Conclusion: ‘Separate yet Combined’ Bibliography Index