Fictions of Consciousness: Mill, Newman, and the Reading of Victorian Prose

Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Part I. Free Association I. The Philosophic Context of Mill's Autobiography II. Associationism, Will, and Consciousness III. Examples in Narrative: Harriet and the Mental Crisis IV. Consciousness as a Narrative of Completion in the Autobiography Part 2. Knowing Belief V. The Philosophic Context of Newman's Apologia VI. From History to Consciousness VII. Belief as Example: The Polemic of Self-defense VIII. Consciousness as a Narrative of Reflection in the Apologia Part 3. Carlyle, Arnold, and the Reading of Victorian Prose IX. Reading Victorian Prose X. Experience Teaching by Philosophy: The Epistemology of Carlyle s Histories XI. The Gaze within the Text: The Expansions of Arnold's Critical Discourse Afterword: On Using Theory Notes Index