2 Fitzpiers the Empiricist: Illness and Desire in The Woodlanders

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Series Preface vii
4. Notes on Contributors viii
5. Introduction: Mind, Body, Literature and Psychology in the Later Nineteenth Century 1
6. 1 Cognitive Eating: George Gissing and the Victorian Brainworker 20
7. 2 Fitzpiers the Empiricist: Illness and Desire in The Woodlanders 40
8. 3 Alice Meynell’s Brain Waves 57
9. 4 Walter Pater’s Embodied Knowledge: In and Out of Psychophysiology 81
10. 5 Conversion-Crisis as a Marginal Experience in William James and Walter Pater 100
11. 6 Self-Taste, Embodiment, and Language in Gerard Manley Hopkins 121
12. 7 Neuron Doctrine in Fiction by Marie Corelli and Oscar Wilde 142
13. 8 Vernon Lee: Empathy, Mnemic Engrams, and Satanic Aesthetics 162
14. Index 183