Peter Melville Logan
Biographic Data
| ID | 217721 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Melville Logan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter Melville |
| FAMILY NAME | Logan |
| SIGNATURE | LOGAN P M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Berkeley |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2362-8282 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Primitive Criticism and the Novel
In a controversial article on the life and fiction of Charles Dickens, George H. Lewes ponders the inexplicable preference of readers for the novelist's too-simplistic characters over the more complex characters of other writers. He finds an answer in the primitive reaction to fine art: “To a savage there is so little suggestion of a human face and form in a painted portrait that it is not even recognized as the representation of a man” (“Dickens…
The Encyclopedia of the Novel
Encyclopedia of the Novel
Literature and Medicine
An analysis of ten recent studies in Victorian literature and medicine examines the changes in the interdisciplinary field since G. S. Rousseau published an influential article on the topic in 1981
Victorian Fetishism
This collection of essays explores the complex and often contradictory relationship between Victorian intellectuals and the concept of the "primitive." Examining a range of figures from Darwin and Tylor to Freud and Stevenson, the contributors analyze how "primitive" cultures and peoples were simultaneously fetishized as objects of scientific study, sources of erotic fascination, and repositories of lost innocence. The book argues that this Victo…
Fetishism and Freedom in Matthew Arnold's Cultural Theory
O N THE FAR SIDE OF MATTHEW ARNOLD'S familiar call for objectivism lies a world of phantoms. His phrase, “to see the object as in itself it really is,” responds to a vision of the social body as particularly in need of objectivity. And because it lacks this quality, Arnold's Victorian society is one that sees the object as in itself it really is not. This mode of perception is the other side of Arnold's writing: a world of prevailing hallucinatio…
The Knotted Subject
It is by now axiomatic that hysteria as a medical diagnosis disappeared in the twentieth century, despite a persistence since classical antiquity. Yet, abandoned by one set of caretakers, this charismatic orphan has been solicited and fussed over by others. A steady rise of interest in hysteria as a philosophical and critical object continues, particularly within the history of medicine, art history, literary criticism, cultural studies, and femi…
Conceiving the body
’It was like &dquo;assisting at the creation- a universe formed out of nothing!&dquo;&dquo; According to her partner, the philosopher and biologist George Henry Lewes, this remark pleased George Eliot above all other early comments on Middle-march.2 The speaker was her real-life surgeon, Sir James Paget, and he refers to her creation of the fictional surgeon Tertius Lydgate, one of the novel’s two central protagonists. ’ Paget is astonished at Ge…
Literature and Medicine
An analysis of ten recent studies in Victorian literature and medicine examines the changes in the interdisciplinary field since G. S. Rousseau published an influential article on the topic in 1981
Fetishism and Freedom in Matthew Arnold's Cultural Theory
O N THE FAR SIDE OF MATTHEW ARNOLD'S familiar call for objectivism lies a world of phantoms. His phrase, “to see the object as in itself it really is,” responds to a vision of the social body as particularly in need of objectivity. And because it lacks this quality, Arnold's Victorian society is one that sees the object as in itself it really is not. This mode of perception is the other side of Arnold's writing: a world of prevailing hallucinatio…
Conceiving the body
’It was like &dquo;assisting at the creation- a universe formed out of nothing!&dquo;&dquo; According to her partner, the philosopher and biologist George Henry Lewes, this remark pleased George Eliot above all other early comments on Middle-march.2 The speaker was her real-life surgeon, Sir James Paget, and he refers to her creation of the fictional surgeon Tertius Lydgate, one of the novel’s two central protagonists. ’ Paget is astonished at Ge…
Conceiving the body
’It was like &dquo;assisting at the creation- a universe formed out of nothing!&dquo;&dquo; According to her partner, the philosopher and biologist George Henry Lewes, this remark pleased George Eliot above all other early comments on Middle-march.2 The speaker was her real-life surgeon, Sir James Paget, and he refers to her creation of the fictional surgeon Tertius Lydgate, one of the novel’s two central protagonists. ’ Paget is astonished at Ge…
The Knotted Subject
It is by now axiomatic that hysteria as a medical diagnosis disappeared in the twentieth century, despite a persistence since classical antiquity. Yet, abandoned by one set of caretakers, this charismatic orphan has been solicited and fussed over by others. A steady rise of interest in hysteria as a philosophical and critical object continues, particularly within the history of medicine, art history, literary criticism, cultural studies, and femi…
Fetishism and Freedom in Matthew Arnold's Cultural Theory
O N THE FAR SIDE OF MATTHEW ARNOLD'S familiar call for objectivism lies a world of phantoms. His phrase, “to see the object as in itself it really is,” responds to a vision of the social body as particularly in need of objectivity. And because it lacks this quality, Arnold's Victorian society is one that sees the object as in itself it really is not. This mode of perception is the other side of Arnold's writing: a world of prevailing hallucinatio…
Literature and Medicine
An analysis of ten recent studies in Victorian literature and medicine examines the changes in the interdisciplinary field since G. S. Rousseau published an influential article on the topic in 1981
Victorian Fetishism
This collection of essays explores the complex and often contradictory relationship between Victorian intellectuals and the concept of the "primitive." Examining a range of figures from Darwin and Tylor to Freud and Stevenson, the contributors analyze how "primitive" cultures and peoples were simultaneously fetishized as objects of scientific study, sources of erotic fascination, and repositories of lost innocence. The book argues that this Victo…
The Encyclopedia of the Novel
Encyclopedia of the Novel
Primitive Criticism and the Novel
In a controversial article on the life and fiction of Charles Dickens, George H. Lewes ponders the inexplicable preference of readers for the novelist's too-simplistic characters over the more complex characters of other writers. He finds an answer in the primitive reaction to fine art: “To a savage there is so little suggestion of a human face and form in a painted portrait that it is not even recognized as the representation of a man” (“Dickens…
Art (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Psychoanalysis (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Contemporary Literature and Criticism (2 works) · Fetishism (2 works) · Linguistics (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work)