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Harris, Daniel Charles.

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Reforming the organism: Physiological individuation and the nature of political selfhood in Victorian literary culture.

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Reforming the organism: Physiological individuation and the nature of political selfhood in Victorian literary culture./
作者:	Harris, Daniel Charles.
面頁冊數:	239 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 75-07(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International75-07A(E).
標題:	Literature, English. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3615651
ISBN:	9781303817267

Reforming the organism: Physiological individuation and the nature of political selfhood in Victorian literary culture.
Harris, Daniel Charles.

Reforming the organism: Physiological individuation and the nature of political selfhood in Victorian literary culture. - 239 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 75-07(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Chicago, 2014.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

This dissertation argues that Victorian writers challenged literary forms and political ideologies grounded in Enlightenment definitions of the individual person by focusing on the physiological processes of individuation that maintain the life of the organism. In the context of physiological theory, the term individuation refers to the processes that generate temporary and relative distinctions between a given organism and the rest of the cosmos. Whereas discourses such as associationist psychology and literary forms such as the Bildungsroman promote a teleological and continuous vision of development, Victorian physiologists characterized processes of individuation as constantly fluctuating and discontinuous. Literary historians such as Nicholas Dames, Benjamin Morgan, and Vanessa Ryan have thoroughly documented the influence of physiological psychology on the realist novel, but we still need to recognize the lack of fit between physiological concepts of individuation and psychological concepts of individuality. Poets and novelists such as Thomas Lovell Beddoes, Charles Kingsley, Samuel Butler, and George Eliot drew on physiological processes of individuation as models for discontinuous and anti-teleological narrative structures that track characters' oscillations through various relative levels of autonomy. The modes of irony, techniques of characterization, and patterns of figurative language on which this study will focus emphasize the plasticity of the economic and political functions of the human organism. At certain moments these functions help to individuate characters, whereas at other moments they cause characters to blur together into collective functional units that resemble physiological descriptions of colonial invertebrates such as corals. By depicting economic and political life as a continuation of the functional inversions and shifts in autonomy that characterize reproductive, developmental, and neurophysiological processes, these writers shifted Victorian debates about the nature and goals of reform away from traditional conceptions of personal identity to the modes of individuation that generate the collective life of a society.

ISBN: 9781303817267Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017709
Literature, English.

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