Martin Raitiere

The Complicity of Friends

How George Eliot, G. H. Lewes, and John Hughlings-Jackson Encoded Herbert Spencer's Secret

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Produktbeschreibung

The Complicity of Friends offers an entirely original perspective within which to appreciate four eminent Victorians: Herbert Spencer, George Eliot, G. H. Lewes, and John Hughlings-Jackson. For the first time, I clarify the nature of Spencer's illness and demonstrate its repercussions in the lives and work of his three gifted friends.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Seitenzahl: 402
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Juni 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 580g
• ISBN-13: 9781611485974
• ISBN-10: 1611485975
• Artikelnr.: 40726180

Autorenporträt

By Martin Raitiere

Inhaltsangabe

Contents   Preface Abbreviations 1 Introduction: Two Secrets-or One? Phase
One: What Eliot Saw, What Spencer Said 2  "The Lifted Veil," A: George
Eliot Stolen! 3  "The Lifted Veil," B: Revenge by Diagnosis 4   A Fitful
Reader 5  The Dagger Sheathed, Partly Phase Two: What the Philosopher Wrote
(with a Friend's Rejoinder) 6  Electricity and the Man 7  The Mystery of
the Two Rooms 8  Enter Hughlings-Jackson 9  A Good Strong Terrible Vision
Phase Three: What the Doctor Heard 10  Lewes the Fixer 11  Who Was
Hughlings-Jackson's "Educated Patient"? 12  Ghost Stories Phase Four: The
Exchange of Prisoners 13 The Man between the Fits 14  Eliot Does Mischief
(Again) 15   Life after the Georges 16  Conclusion: The Brain is Not the
Mind Appendix 1: Many Snapshots, One Secretive Patient Appendix 2:  Did
Spencer Have Autosomal Dominant Partial Epilepsy      with Auditory
Features?   Notes Acknowledgments List of Works Cited Index