The complicity of friends : how George Eliot, G.H. Lewes, and John Hughlings-Jackson encoded Herbert Spencer's secret / Martin N. Raitiere.

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Raitiere, Martin N, 1948-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Lanham, Md. : Bucknell University Press, c2012.Description: 1 online resource (xv, 383 p.)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781611484199
1611484197

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: The complicity of friendsDDC classification:

823/.8 23

LOC classification:

PR4682

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Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction: Two Secrets -- or One? -- Phase One What Eliot Saw, What Spencer Said -- 2. "The Lifted Veil," A: George Eliot Stolen! -- 3. "The Lifted Veil," B: Revenge by Diagnosis -- 4. Fitful Reader -- 5. Dagger Sheathed, Partly -- Phase Two What the Philosopher Wrote (with a Friend's Rejoinder) -- 6. Electricity and the Man -- 7. Mystery of the Two Rooms -- 8. Enter Hughlings-Jackson -- 9. Good Strong Terrible Vision -- Phase Three What the Doctor Heard -- 10. Lewes the Fixer -- 11. Who Was Hughlings-Jackson's "Educated Patient"? -- 12. Ghost Stories -- Phase Four Exchange of Prisoners -- 13. Man between the Fits -- 14. Eliot Does Mischief (Again) -- 15. Life After the Georges -- 16. Conclusion: The Brain Is Not the Mind.

Summary: The Complicity of Friends offers an entirely original perspective within which to appreciate four eminent Victorians: Herbert Spencer, George Eliot, G.H. Lewes, and John Hughlings-Jackson. For the first time, I clarify the nature of Spencer's illness and demonstrate its repercussions in the lives and work of his three gifted friends.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 357-376) and index.

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The Complicity of Friends offers an entirely original perspective within which to appreciate four eminent Victorians: Herbert Spencer, George Eliot, G.H. Lewes, and John Hughlings-Jackson. For the first time, I clarify the nature of Spencer's illness and demonstrate its repercussions in the lives and work of his three gifted friends.

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