Rick Rylance
- Published in print:
- 2000
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198122838
- eISBN:
- 9780191671555
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198122838.003.0004
- Subject:
- Literature, 19th-century and Victorian Literature
If there is a dominant source for the majority of what passed for psychology in the Victorian period, it is to be found in the philosophy of mind. The conceptual heritage derived from philosophical ...
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If there is a dominant source for the majority of what passed for psychology in the Victorian period, it is to be found in the philosophy of mind. The conceptual heritage derived from philosophical discussion determined to a great extent the appearance and substance of the leading psychological issues addressed by nineteenth-century minds. It determined the vocabulary and rhetorical style selected by psychological writers, as well as the location and types of publication. This chapter traces the deployment and adjustment of philosophical argument concerning the mind in its broad, public context, bearing in mind the fact that philosophy carried a greater share of the intellectual and cultural conversation of nineteenth-century British society than it may do today, and that its language and forms of publication enabled and reflected this.Less
If there is a dominant source for the majority of what passed for psychology in the Victorian period, it is to be found in the philosophy of mind. The conceptual heritage derived from philosophical discussion determined to a great extent the appearance and substance of the leading psychological issues addressed by nineteenth-century minds. It determined the vocabulary and rhetorical style selected by psychological writers, as well as the location and types of publication. This chapter traces the deployment and adjustment of philosophical argument concerning the mind in its broad, public context, bearing in mind the fact that philosophy carried a greater share of the intellectual and cultural conversation of nineteenth-century British society than it may do today, and that its language and forms of publication enabled and reflected this.
Robert Hemmings
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780748633067
- eISBN:
- 9780748651887
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748633067.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, 20th-century Literature and Modernism
This book explores Siegfried Sassoon’s writing of the twenties, thirties and forties, demonstrating the connections between trauma and nostalgia in a culture saturated with the anxieties of war. ...
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This book explores Siegfried Sassoon’s writing of the twenties, thirties and forties, demonstrating the connections between trauma and nostalgia in a culture saturated with the anxieties of war. Informed by the texts of Freud, W.H.R. Rivers and other psychological writers of the early twentieth century, as well as contemporary theorists of nostalgia and trauma, it examines the pathology of nostalgia conveyed in Sassoon’s unpublished poems, letters and journals, together with his published work. The book situates Sassoon’s ongoing anxiety about ‘Englishness’, modernity and his relation to modernist aesthetics within the context of other literary responses to the legacy of war, and the threat of war’s return, by writers including Edmund Blunden, Robert Graves and T. E. Lawrence. This study teases out the relationship between nostalgia, trauma and autobiography, and forges connections between the literatures of the two world wars. As a case study of modern nostalgia, the book offers an alternative to the perception that Sassoon’s historical and cultural relevance touches the First World War only.Less
This book explores Siegfried Sassoon’s writing of the twenties, thirties and forties, demonstrating the connections between trauma and nostalgia in a culture saturated with the anxieties of war. Informed by the texts of Freud, W.H.R. Rivers and other psychological writers of the early twentieth century, as well as contemporary theorists of nostalgia and trauma, it examines the pathology of nostalgia conveyed in Sassoon’s unpublished poems, letters and journals, together with his published work. The book situates Sassoon’s ongoing anxiety about ‘Englishness’, modernity and his relation to modernist aesthetics within the context of other literary responses to the legacy of war, and the threat of war’s return, by writers including Edmund Blunden, Robert Graves and T. E. Lawrence. This study teases out the relationship between nostalgia, trauma and autobiography, and forges connections between the literatures of the two world wars. As a case study of modern nostalgia, the book offers an alternative to the perception that Sassoon’s historical and cultural relevance touches the First World War only.
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- March 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780226037431
- eISBN:
- 9780226037448
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226037448.003.0013
- Subject:
- History, American History: early to 18th Century
This chapter, which focuses on the correspondence of Nabby Adams, eldest daughter of John and Abigail Adams, with Royall Tyler Jr., explains that Tyler first entered Nabby's correspondence in 1781 as ...
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This chapter, which focuses on the correspondence of Nabby Adams, eldest daughter of John and Abigail Adams, with Royall Tyler Jr., explains that Tyler first entered Nabby's correspondence in 1781 as the kind of predator against whom a host of sentimental writers warned. It discusses the psychological suffering that John's paternal absence was causing his daughter and describes Abigail's reaction to John's assertion that Tyler's attraction to Nabby was merely superficial.Less
This chapter, which focuses on the correspondence of Nabby Adams, eldest daughter of John and Abigail Adams, with Royall Tyler Jr., explains that Tyler first entered Nabby's correspondence in 1781 as the kind of predator against whom a host of sentimental writers warned. It discusses the psychological suffering that John's paternal absence was causing his daughter and describes Abigail's reaction to John's assertion that Tyler's attraction to Nabby was merely superficial.
