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THE VICTORIAN MENTAL SCIENCES
Victorian Literature and Culture Pub Date : 2018-03-26 , DOI: 10.1017/s1060150317000444
Suzy Anger

In a 1990 review of Jenny Bourne Taylor's In the Secret Theatre of Home: Wilkie Collins, Sensation Narrative, and Nineteenth-Century Psychology (1988), Lawrence Rothfield commented that the book explores what “until recently might have seemed a bizarrely specialized cultural context and an equally obscure literary phenomenon” (97). Rothfield argued that Taylor's study was representative of the recent move to new historicist methodologies, which made contexts and authors once considered to be historical footnotes important to scholarship. Prior to that shift, “[n]ineteenth-century English psychology, a mishmash of scientifically dubious theories and practices such as phrenology, physiognomy, moral management, and mesmerism, hardly seemed key to understanding the broad cultural issues of concern as traditionally construed in Victorian studies” (97). Strikingly, now some twenty-five years later, knowledge of nineteenth-century psychology seems essential to the field. Presses, alert to that shift, have republished out-of-print literary studies that explored Victorian literature in relation to psychology in the years preceding the current surge of interest in the subject. (Faas's 1989 Retreat into the Mind: Victorian Poetry and the Rise of Psychiatry was reissued by Princeton University Press in a 2016 hardcover edition. Kearns's 1987 Metaphors of Mind in Fiction and Psychology was reissued in 2014 by the University of Kentucky Press.) Judging by the number of publications in the area, as well as by titles on the programs of recent conferences, the sciences of the mind have become one of the central topics in Victorian studies.

中文翻译:

维多利亚时代的心理科学

在 1990 年的回顾中珍妮·伯恩·泰勒的在家庭的秘密剧院:威尔基柯林斯、感觉叙事和 19 世纪心理学(1988 年),劳伦斯·罗斯菲尔德(Lawrence Rothfield)评论说,这本书探讨了“直到最近才可能是一种奇怪的专业化文化背景和同样晦涩难懂的文学现象”(97)。罗斯菲尔德认为,泰勒的研究代表了最近转向新的历史主义方法论,这使得曾经被认为是历史脚注的背景和作者对学术研究很重要。在这种转变之前,“[n] 世纪的英国心理学是颅相学、面相学、道德管理和催眠术等科学上可疑的理论和实践的混杂,似乎很难理解传统上所解释的广泛关注的文化问题。维多利亚时代的研究”(97)。引人注目的是,现在大约 25 年后,19 世纪心理学的知识似乎对该领域至关重要。压力机,警惕这种转变,在当前对该主题的兴趣激增之前的几年里,他们重新出版了绝版文学研究,探讨了与心理学有关的维多利亚文学。(法斯 1989撤退到心灵:维多利亚时代的诗歌和精神病学的兴起由普林斯顿大学出版社再版,2016 年精装版。卡恩斯 1987小说和心理学中的心灵隐喻由肯塔基大学出版社于 2014 年重新发行。)从该领域的出版物数量以及近期会议项目的标题来看,心灵科学已成为维多利亚时代研究的中心议题之一。
更新日期:2018-03-26
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