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Logan, Peter. Nerves and Narratives: A Cultural History of Hysteria in Nineteenth-century British Prose (Berkeley: U of California Press, 1997).
Matus, Jill. Shock, Memory, and the Unconscious in Victorian Fiction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
“Victorian theories of shock and trauma necessarily relied on a different understanding of the architecture of the mind, and often emphasized the role of intense emotion rather than that of [Freudian theories of] repressive memory . . . . Matus provides astute readings of novels by Dickens, Gaskell, Eliot and Stevenson. She stresses the various ways in which Victorian fiction not only pilfered these pretraumatic theories but also played an active role in imagining, observing and conceptualizing the possible effects of shock on the psyche.“ — David McAllister, TLS (19 February 2010)
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“James Sully, an exponent of the new physiological psychology, is perhaps best known for his Studies of Childhood (1895), his early use of questionnaires, his training of mothers as lay scientific observers. . . . He is also known for . . . the influence his work had on Sigmund Freud.“
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“The physiologist William B. Carpenter first introduced theory of ‘unconscious cerebration’ in 1854, in the fourth edition of his Principles of Human Physiology, to dscribe the circumvention of conscious, rational thought.” — Vanessa L. Ryan (see above)
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