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Victorian Afterlives - The Shaping of Influence in Nineteenth-Century Literature (Paperback, Revised)
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Victorian Afterlives - The Shaping of Influence in Nineteenth-Century Literature (Paperback, Revised)
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Questions of survival were much discussed during the
nineteenth-century, ranging from debates over the likelihood of a
personal immortality, to anxieties over the more dispersed and
unpredictable aftermath of particular acts and utterances. Some of
these questions emerged in the intellectual and stylistic
preoccupations of individual writers, such as Dickens, Tennyson,
and FitzGerald. Others contributed towards the cultural atmosphere
they shared, in which shifty and overlapping ideas of 'influence'
(from the seductive touch of the mesmerist to the contagious breath
of the poor) became central to attempts to work out how
far-reaching were the effects which people had on one another and
themselves. Victorian Afterlives sets out to recover this
atmosphere, and to explain why its pressures are still being
exercised on and in our own ways of thinking. Moving freely between
different fields of enquiry (including literary criticism,
philosophy, and the history of science), and written in a lively
and accessible style, this major new study redraws the map of
nineteenth-century culture to show what the Victorians made of one
another, and what they might still help us make of ourselves.
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