Thinking without thinking in the Victorian novel / Vanessa L. Ryan.

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012.

viii, 243 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Mind in motion -- The reflexive mind: Wilkie Collins and "Unconscious cerebration" -- Awareness: reflex and responsibility in George Eliot -- Experience: mind work in W. B. Carpenter, G. H. Lewes, and Herbert Spencer -- Almost knowledge: Henry James and consciousness "beyond the margin" -- Muscular readers: George Meredith and "Effortful style" -- Novels for psychologists: James Sully and the "Function of fiction" -- Conclusion: The after-life of physiological psychology.