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Through analysis of metaphors of consciousness in the philosophy and fiction of William James, Henry James and Edith Wharton, this work traces the significance of representations of knowledge, gender and social class, revealing how writers conceived of the self in modern literature.
Contents
Chapter 1 Studies in Nature and Interiors: The Discourse of Consciousness in Nineteenth-Century Science; Chapter 2 Contesting Metaphors and the Discourse of Consciousness in William James; Chapter 3 The Structure of Consciousness: Henry James's Portrait of a Lady and the Drama of Social Relations; Chapter 4 Relations, Receptacles and Worlds of Experience: Gendered Metaphors and The Golden Bowl; Chapter 5 Designing Our Interiors: Self-Consciousness and Social Awareness in Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth; Chapter 6 The Price of a Conscious Self in Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence;