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

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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