附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-292) and index.
Austen's nostalgics -- Amnesiac bodies: phrenology, physiognomy, and memory in Charlotte Brontë -- Associated fictions: Dickens, Thackeray, and mid-century fictional autobiography -- The birth of amnesia: Collins, sensation, forgetting -- The unremembered past: Eliot's Romola and amnesiac histories.
摘要:With Joyce, Proust, and Faulkner in mind, we have come to understand the novel as a form with intimate ties to the impulses and processes of memory. This study contends that this common perception is an anachronism that distorts our view of the novel. Based on an investigation of representative novels, Amnesiac Selves shows that the Victorian novel bears no such secure relation to memory, and, in fact, it tries to hide, evade, and eliminate remembering. Dames argues that the notable scarcity and distinct unease of representations of remembrance in the nineteenth-century British novel signal an.
