Metaphors of mind in fiction and psychology / Michael S. Kearns.

• I. The Problem of Metaphors of Mind; II. Metaphor Theory and Metaphors of Mind; III. Corpuscular Thoughts, Tangible Minds: Eighteenth-Century Psychology and Fiction; IV. Mind as Entity in Nineteenth-Century Psychology; V Revealing Surfaces, Predictable Depths: Mind as Entity in Brontë and Dickens; VI. Toward the Life of the Mind: James and Eliot Discover Sentience; VII. Afterword: William James' Language of the Mind. 

• Curiosity about the human mind -- what it is and how it functions -- began long before modern psychology. But because the mind and its processes are so elusive, they could be described only by means of metaphor. Michael Kearns, in this prize-winning study, examines the development of metaphors of the mind in psychological writings from Hobbes through William James and in fiction from Defoe through Henry James. Throughout the eighteenth century and even into the early nineteenth, metaphors of the mind as a relatively simple entity, either mechanical or biological, dominated both those engaged in. 

Ämnesord

Engelsk litteraturhistoria  (sao)

Engelska romaner  (sao)

Metaforer  (sao)

Kropp och själ i litteraturen  (sao)

Litteraturpsykologi  (sao)

Metaphor 

Mind and body in literature 

Psychology and literature 

English 

Languages & Literatures 

English Literature 

English fiction  -- 19th century -- History and criticism

Mind and body  -- England

Psychological fiction, English  -- History and criticism

Psychology  -- History

Mind and body in literature  (LCSH)

Metaphor  (LCSH)

English fiction  (LCSH)

Psychology and literature  (LCSH)

Klassifikation

PR868.P75 K44 2015 (LCC)

820.9353 (DDC)