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The Double in Nineteenth-Century Fiction 1990th Edition
Author(s): J. Herdman (Author)
- Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
- Publication Date: 29 Jun. 1990
- Edition: 1990th
- Language: English
- Print length: 185 pages
- ISBN-10: 033349024X
- ISBN-13: 9780333490242
Book Description
Duality and the divided mind have been a source of perennial fascination for literary artists and especially for novelists, and this is particularly true of the Romantic generation and their later nineteenth-century heirs. This book deals with the double, or Doppelgnger, as a dominant theme in the fiction of the period, and with its relation to the problem of evil. It suggests that the literary double flourished best when psychological and religious understandings of human dividedness were in harmony, and declined when they began to grow apart. Writers analysed include E.T.A.Hoffmann, James Hogg, Poe, Dostoevsky and Stevenson; the final chapter relates the theme to the psychology of Jung.
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JOHN HERDMAN
