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  1. Still life :
    suspended development in the Victorian novel /
    Published: 2015.
    Publisher:  Oxford University Press,, New York :

    'Still Life' rethinks the 19th-century aesthetics of agency through the Victorian novel's fascination with states of reverie, trance, and sleep. These states challenge contemporary scientific and philosophical accounts of the perfectibility of the... more

    Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Universitätsbibliothek, Jacob-und-Wilhelm-Grimm-Zentrum
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    'Still Life' rethinks the 19th-century aesthetics of agency through the Victorian novel's fascination with states of reverie, trance, and sleep. These states challenge contemporary scientific and philosophical accounts of the perfectibility of the self, which privileged reflective self-awareness.

     

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    Content information
    Source: Union catalogues
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780190250065 (ebook) :
    Subjects: English fiction; Reflection (Philosophy) in literature.; Dreams in literature.; Sleep in literature.
    Scope: 1 online resource :, illustrations (black and white)
    Notes:

    Includes bibliographical references and index.