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Self, consciousness and agency in the egoist (2017)
Journal Article
Davis, M. (2017). Self, consciousness and agency in the egoist. Journal of Victorian Culture, 22(4), 536-552. https://doi.org/10.1080/13555502.2017.1318298

© 2017 Leeds Trinity University. This article re-reads representations of the self and agency in George Meredith’s The Egoist (1879) by drawing new connections between the novel and Victorian psychological theory. Critical discussions of The Egoist a... Read More about Self, consciousness and agency in the egoist.

Psychology and literature (2015)
Book Chapter
Davis, M. (2015). Psychology and literature. In L. Behlman, & A. Longmuir (Eds.), Victorian Literature: Criticism and Debates (250-257). Abingdon: Routledge

Psychology and literature

Mind and matter in the picture of Dorian gray (2013)
Journal Article
Davis, M. (2013). Mind and matter in the picture of Dorian gray. Victorian Literature and Culture, 41(3), 547-560. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1060150313000090

In chapter 8 of Dorian Gray, Dorian reflects on the terrifying discovery, which he has made the previous night, that the painting has been somehow altered to express his own moral state. He speculates thus on a possible explanation for the change in... Read More about Mind and matter in the picture of Dorian gray.

Psychology and the idea of character (2011)
Book Chapter
Davis, M. (2011). Psychology and the idea of character. In J. Kucich, & J. Bourne Taylor (Eds.), The Oxford History of the Novel in English. Oxford: Oxford University Press

George Eliot and Nineteenth-Century Psychology: Exploring the Unmapped Country. (2006)
Book
Davis, M. (2006). George Eliot and Nineteenth-Century Psychology: Exploring the Unmapped Country. Aldershot: Ashgate

In his study of Eliot as a psychological novelist, Michael Davis examines Eliot's writings in the context of a large volume of nineteenth-century scientific writing about the mind. Eliot, Davis argues, manipulated scientific language in often subvers... Read More about George Eliot and Nineteenth-Century Psychology: Exploring the Unmapped Country..