The Museum as 'Dream Space': Psychology and Aesthetic Response in George Eliot’s Middlemarch
This essay explores the relationship between aesthetics and psychology through the idea of the museum as a ‘dream space’ in George Eliot’s Middlemarch. It begins with a discussion of Charles Dickens’s Amy Dorrit and Hilda in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Marble Faun, two women who, like Dorothea Brooke,...
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| Language: | English |
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Open Library of Humanities
2011-04-01
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| Online Access: | http://19.bbk.ac.uk/article/id/1658/ |