TY  - BOOK
AU  - Staten,Henry
TI  - Spirit Becomes Matter: The Brontes, George Eliot, Nietzsche 
T2  - Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture : ECSVC
SN  - 9780748694587
U1  - 823/.809 23
PY  - 2022///]
CY  - Edinburgh : 
PB  - Edinburgh University Press, 
KW  - English fiction
KW  - 19th century
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Theory, etc
KW  - English fiction, 19th century
KW  - Literary Studies
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - Traces the development of critical moral psychology in the central novels of the Brontës and George EliotThis book explains how, under the influence of the new 'mental materialism' that held sway in mid-Victorian scientific and medical thought, the Brontës and George Eliot in their greatest novels broached a radical new form of novelistic moral psychology. This was one no longer bound by the idealizing presuppositions of traditional Christian moral ideology, and, as Henry Staten argues, is closely related to Nietzsche's physiological theory of will to power (itself directly influenced by Herbert Spencer). On this reading, Staten suggests, the Brontës and George Eliot participate, with Flaubert, Baudelaire, and Nietzsche, in the beginnings of the modernist turn toward a strictly naturalistic moral psychology, one that is 'non-moral' or 'post-moral'.M/p›
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780748694594?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780748694594
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780748694594/original
ER  -