Unfolding the Mind by Jeffrey Steele

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Summary

American writers in the 1830s and 1840s felt the need for a new terminology to express their awakening perception of "new" aspects of the mind. Without words like the "unconscious" vast areas of the psyche would have remained unexpressed and thus unapproachable.

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Unfolding the Mind by Jeffrey Steele

American writers in the 1830s and 1840s felt the need for a new terminology to express their awakening perception of "new" aspects of the mind. Without words like the "unconscious" vast areas of the psyche would have remained unexpressed and thus unapproachable. This "discovery" of the unconscious constitutes to the theme of this study, which was first published in 1987. This title will be of interest to students of literary theory.

Jeffrey Steele is Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin. He is the author of Unfolding the Mind: The Unconscious in American Romanticism and Literary Theory.
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ISBN 13 9781138693678
ISBN 10 1138693677
Title Unfolding the Mind
Author Jeffrey Steele
Series Routledge Library Editions: Literary Theory
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Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Routledge
Year published 2018-01-09
Number of pages 280
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