- Paperback: 308 pages
- Publisher: OUP USA (20 Nov 2003)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0195173090
- ISBN-13: 978-0195173093
- Product Dimensions: 21.7 x 16.5 x 2 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 903,499 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"Amnesiac Selves is a highly intelligent, stimulating work, which will keep readers in constant dialogue. Dames is a skilful close reader of texts, and moves deftly between individual analysis and general claim."--Sally Shuttleworth, Victorian Studies
"If a major challenge of analyzing the Victorian novel is the sheer excess of material, Nicholas Dames's Amnesiac Selves...brilliantly argues that forgetting that detail is central not only to interpreting those novels but to the structure of the novels themselves."--Studies in English Literature 1500-1900
"Amnesiac Selves is an insightful book, and its insights are important. Nicholas Dames develops in this helpful volume a revisionist view of memory in the early Victorian novel, a view so innovative it not only illuminates our modern perspective of the Victorian mental landscape, it reshapes it.... This careful study deserves reading. Even if you don't agree as enthusiastically as I do with Nicholas Dames' analysis of Victoria
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In its nuanced examination of a wide variety of Victorian theories of mind, including physiognomy, physiology, associationism, and cognitive philosophies, Amnesiac Selves draws a powerful portrait of the interaction between psychology and the novel in the years 1810-1870. Dames demonstrates the crucial role that novels played in forming a habit of diluting remembrance into secure, sentimental, and above all communal memories, habits that live on in the nostalgia still felt by their readers. In tracing the formative nostalgias of canonical British fiction, this study recalls for us what these novels so often ask us to forget. Provocative and original, Amnesiac Selves constitutes a major advance in studies of Victorian culture and literature.
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new nostalgia
25 Feb 2005
Format:Paperback
Finally new studies of nostalgia that see it historically. I can also recommend Ann Colley's Nostalgia and Recollection and Tamar Wagner's Longing: Narratives of Nostalgia - all books that finally go away from simplifying psychobabble...
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(Un)forgettable!
19 July 2001
Format:Hardcover
A truly magisterial meditation on memory, this study is as notable for the insight, wit and compassion with which the author treats his subject as it is for the unparalleled level of scholarship which it displays. For anyone who has ever been an amnesiac, or has ever wanted to be a self, this book is required reading.
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great expectations
23 May 2001
Format:Hardcover
Although I have yet to read the book, I have heard fabulous things about it and its author.
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