Spirit Becomes Matter: The Brontes, George Eliot, Nietzsche

by Henry Staten

Traces the development of critical moral psychology in the central novels of the Bront s and George Eliot
This book explains how, under the influence of the new 'mental materialism' that held sway in mid-Victorian scientific and medical thought, the Bront s and George Eliot in their greatest novels broached a radical new form of novelistic moral psychology. This was one no longer bound by the idealizing presuppositions of traditional Christian...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0748694587
• ISBN13: 9780748694587
• Release Date: June 2014
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.3"