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Duality and the divided mind have been a source of perennial fascination for literary artists and especially for novelists, and this is particularly true of the Romantic generation and their later nineteenth-century heirs.

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Preface - The Psychological and Theological Background - The Emergence and Development of the Double Theme - Terror, Pursuit and Shadows - E.T.A. Hoffmann - James Hogg - Edgar Allan Poe - The Russian Double - The Double in Decline - Into Psychology - Notes - Selected Bibliography - Index

The Double in NineteenthCentury Fiction Edinburgh Studies in Culture and Society

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      Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan UK
      Publication Date: 6/29/1990 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780333490242, 978-0333490242
      ISBN10: 033349024X
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      ELT & Literary Studies Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 Literary theory

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Duality and the divided mind have been a source of perennial fascination for literary artists and especially for novelists, and this is particularly true of the Romantic generation and their later nineteenth-century heirs.

      Table of Contents
      Preface - The Psychological and Theological Background - The Emergence and Development of the Double Theme - Terror, Pursuit and Shadows - E.T.A. Hoffmann - James Hogg - Edgar Allan Poe - The Russian Double - The Double in Decline - Into Psychology - Notes - Selected Bibliography - Index

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