Thinking about Other People in Nineteenth-Century British Writing (Paperback)

Introduction: love thinking; 1. Thinking as action: James Frederick Ferrier's Philosophy of Consciousness; 2. Foam, aura, or melody: theorizing mental force in Victorian Britain; 3. Thinking in the second person in nineteenth-century poetry; 4. Thinking and knowing in Patmore and Meredith; 5. Daniel Deronda and the omnipotence of thought; Conclusion: the ethics of belief and the poetics of thinking about another person.