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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.

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.