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3146689Amnesiac Selveshttps://www.gandhi.com.mx/amnesiac-selves-9780190286699/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/2929821/7b7ea376-ef32-4c0c-8c69-8cf5a6bbdf23.jpg?v=63875508977670000012371374MXNOxford University PressInStock/Ebooks/<p>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, <em>Amnesiac Selves</em> 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 art form struggling to define and construct new concepts of memory. By placing nineteenth-century British fiction from Jane Austen to Wilkie Collins alongside a wide variety of Victorian psychologies and theories of mind, Nicholas Dames evokes a novelistic world, and a culture, before modern memory--one dedicated to a nostalgic evasion of detailed recollection which our time has largely forgotten.</p>...3082464Amnesiac Selves12371374https://www.gandhi.com.mx/amnesiac-selves-9780190286699/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/2929821/7b7ea376-ef32-4c0c-8c69-8cf5a6bbdf23.jpg?v=638755089776700000InStockMXN99999DIEbook20019780190286699_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_<p>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, <em>Amnesiac Selves</em> 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 art form struggling to define and construct new concepts of memory. By placing nineteenth-century British fiction from Jane Austen to Wilkie Collins alongside a wide variety of Victorian psychologies and theories of mind, Nicholas Dames evokes a novelistic world, and a culture, before modern memory--one dedicated to a nostalgic evasion of detailed recollection which our time has largely forgotten.</p>(*_*)9780190286699_<p>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, <em>Amnesiac Selves</em> 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 art form struggling to define and construct new concepts of memory. By placing nineteenth-century British fiction from Jane Austen to Wilkie Collins alongside a wide variety of Victorian psychologies and theories of mind, Nicholas Dames evokes a novelistic world, and a culture, before modern memory--one dedicated to a nostalgic evasion of detailed recollection which our time has largely forgotten.</p>...9780190286699_Oxford University Presslibro_electonico_79a234e6-fef7-3185-b4e4-29608b4325c2_9780190286699;9780190286699_9780190286699Nicholas DamesInglésMéxicohttps://getbook.kobo.com/koboid-prod-public/oxfordupuk-epub-95aa127d-da90-4086-bdf3-31b1ce1d3a01.epub2001-06-14T00:00:00+00:00Oxford University Press