The Double in Nineteenth-Century Fiction
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The Double in Nineteenth-Century Fiction by J Herdman
Duality and the divided mind have been a source of perennial fascination for literary artists and especially for novelists, and this is particularly true of the Romantic generation and their later nineteenth-century heirs. This book deals with the double, or Doppelgnger, as a dominant theme in the fiction of the period, and with its relation to the problem of evil. It suggests that the literary double flourished best when psychological and religious understandings of human dividedness were in harmony, and declined when they began to grow apart. Writers analysed include E.T.A.Hoffmann, James Hogg, Poe, Dostoevsky and Stevenson; the final chapter relates the theme to the psychology of Jung.
JOHN HERDMAN
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| ISBN 13 | 9780333490242 |
| ISBN 10 | 033349024X |
| Title | The Double in Nineteenth-Century Fiction |
| Author | J Herdman |
| Series | Edinburgh Studies In Culture And Society |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan |
| Year published | 1990-06-29 |
| Number of pages | 174 |
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