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Book SynopsisIn this interdisciplinary and groundbreaking collection of essays, distinguished scholars examine trends in the representation of consciousness in English-language narrative discourse from 700 to the present. Tracing commonalities and differences in the portrayal of fictional minds,
The Emergence of Mind will have a lasting impact on literary studies, narratology, and other fields.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Introduction
David Herman
Part I: Representing Minds in Old and Middle English Narrative
1. 700–1050: Embodiment, Metaphor, and the Mind in Old English Narrative
Leslie Lockett
2. 1050–1500: Through a Glass Darkly; or, the Emergence of Mind in Medieval Narrative
Monika Fludernik
Part II: Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Minds
3. 1500–1620: Reading, Consciousness, and Romance in the Sixteenth Century
F. Elizabeth Hart
4. 1620–1700: Mind on the Move
Elizabeth Bradburn
Part III: Contexts for Consciousness in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
5. 1700–1775: Theory of Mind, Social Hierarchy, and the Emergence of Narrative Subjectivity
Lisa Zunshine
6. 1775–1825: Affective Landscapes and Romantic Consciousness
David Vallins
7. 1825–1880: The Network of Nerves
Nicholas Dames
Part IV: Remodeling the Mind in Modernist and Postmodernist Narrative
8. 1880–1945: Re-minding Modernism
David Herman
9. 1945– : Ontologies of Consciousness
Alan Palmer
Contributors
Index
