dc.contributor.author | Neill, Anna | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2014-01-27T17:47:32Z | |
dc.date.available | 2014-01-27T17:47:32Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2011-10-01 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Neill, Anna. "Evolution and Epilepsy in Bleak House." SEL (Studies in English Literature) 51.4 (Fall 2011). | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1808/12865 | |
dc.description | This is the author's accepted manuscript.The original publication is available at http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/studies_in_english_literature/v051/51.4.neill.html. | |
dc.description.abstract | In Charles Dickens's novels, nervous seizures trigger dreamy, clairvoyant episodes in which normally imperceptible connections and relations among events and characters come to light. During such episodes, which the neurologist John Hughlings Jackson would describe as "voluminous" states of consciousness, the boundaries of the self dissolve, and the mind becomes attuned to a range of possible identities or phantom selves. The specters unleashed in this state of nervous "dissolution" haunt Bleak House even as they illuminate relations among members of vastly different social worlds and the great institutional forces that affect the most curious events of the mind. | |
dc.publisher | Rice University | |
dc.relation.isversionof | http://sel.rice.edu | |
dc.relation.isversionof | http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/studies_in_english_literature/v051/51.4.neill.html | |
dc.title | Evolution and Epilepsy in Bleak House | |
dc.type | Article | |
kusw.kuauthor | Neill, Anna | |
kusw.kudepartment | English | |
kusw.oastatus | fullparticipation | |
kusw.oaversion | Scholarly/refereed, author accepted manuscript | |
kusw.oapolicy | This item meets KU Open Access policy criteria. | |
dc.rights.accessrights | openAccess | |