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The Double in Nineteenth-Century Fiction

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  • © 1990

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Authors:
  1. John Herdman
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Part of the book series: Edinburgh Studies in Culture and Society (ESCS)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. The Psychological and Theological Background

    • John Herdman
    Pages 1-10

  3. The Emergence and Development of the Double Theme

    • John Herdman
    Pages 11-20

  4. Terror, Pursuit and Shadows

    • John Herdman
    Pages 21-46

  5. E. T. A. Hoffmann

    • John Herdman
    Pages 47-68

  6. James Hogg

    • John Herdman
    Pages 69-87

  7. Edgar Allan Poe

    • John Herdman
    Pages 88-98

  8. The Russian Double

    • John Herdman
    Pages 99-126

  9. The Double in Decline

    • John Herdman
    Pages 127-152

  10. Into Psychology

    • John Herdman
    Pages 153-161

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 162-174
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Duality and the divided mind have been a source of perennial fascination for literary artists and especially for novelists, and this is particularly true of the Romantic generation and their later nineteenth-century heirs. This book deals with the double, or Doppelgnger, as a dominant theme in the fiction of the period, and with its relation to the problem of evil. It suggests that the literary double flourished best when psychological and religious understandings of human dividedness were in harmony, and declined when they began to grow apart. Writers analysed include E.T.A.Hoffmann, James Hogg, Poe, Dostoevsky and Stevenson; the final chapter relates the theme to the psychology of Jung.

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JOHN HERDMAN

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