Shock, memory and the unconscious in Victorian fiction / Jill L. Matus.

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2009.

x, 247 pages ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 226-235) and index.

Introduction: the psyche in pain -- Historicizing trauma -- Dream and trance: Gaskell's North and south as a "condition-of-consciousness" novel -- Memory and aftermath: from Dicken's "The signalman" to The mystery of Edwin Drood -- Overwhelming emotion and psychic shock in George Eliot's The lifted veil and Daniel Deronda -- Dissociation and multiple selves: memory, Myers and Stevenson's "shilling shocker" -- Afterword on afterwards.