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A Victorian Disposition: Emotional Susceptibility in the Nineteenth-Century Novel

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This dissertation argues that the nineteenth-century construction of “emotional susceptibility” turned a much-derided quirk of psychology—the long retention of one’s earliest affective impressions—into a basis for radical interventions into thinking about attachment, ethics, and the Victorian novel. I focus in particular on the work of Henry Mackenzie, Charlotte Brontë, George...

Keyword:

Ethics, Impressibility, Susceptibility, and Affect

Subject:

English literature

Creator:

Cogswell, Clay

Owner:

Scholarly Digital Publishing

Language:

en

Date Uploaded:

10/07/2021

Date Created:

2021-01-01

Resource Type:

Dissertation

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http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15641 and etdadmin_upload_832383