Author: Shaw, W. David
Title: Victorians and Mystery: Crises of Representation
Description: Ithaca [NY], Cornell University Press, (1990). orig.cloth. 23x15cm, x, 370 pp. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Contents: Mystery & the Unconscious: Can Free WIll Exist?: Can We Be Conscious of Meanings That Lie Outside Consciousness? We Know More Than We Know We Know: Repetition in Dickens & Hardy; "It Is Unutterable": The Burden of Signs in 'Wuthering Heights' & 'Villette'; "The Signless Inane": Mystery & the Unconscious in Carlyle; Incomprehensible Certainties & Interesting Uncertainties: Hopkins & Tennyson; Mystery & Identity: Is Self-Creation Possible? Makling Up People: Are Moral Values Invented or Described? Estranging the Familiar: Veils of Reserve in Trollope or James; The Dark Principle: Erosions of Identity in 'Vanity Fair'; The Burden of Role-Playing: Self-Creation in Borrow & Clough; We Make Our Truths But Cannot Speak Them: George Eliot & the Uses of Silence; Mystery & Method: Is a Centerless View a True One? Must We Explain What We Believe and Prove What We Explain? Newman on Faith: A Heroic Theory of Knowledge; Meaning More Than Is Said: Sources of Mystery in Christina Rossetti & Arnold; The Bewitchment of Words: J.S. Mill on Saying More Than Is Meant; The Critic as Detective: Mystery & Method in 'The Moonstone'; Browning & Mystery: ' The Ring and the Book' and Modern Theory; Conclusion: Crisis in Representation.

Keywords: Literary Criticism, English Literature, Mimesis, Victorian Mystery, Psychological, Subconsciousness, Psychology, Critical, Identity