Shock, Memory and the Unconscious in Victorian Fiction by Jill L. Matus

Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture

Shock, Memory and the Unconscious in Victorian Fiction

Jill L. Matus

264 pages 2009

3 editions

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Jill Matus explores shock in Victorian fiction and psychology with startling results that reconfigure the history of trauma theory. Central to Victorian thinking about consciousness and emotion, shock is a concept that challenged earlier ideas abo...

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