Michael Davis' Outputs (9)

Self, consciousness and agency in the egoist (2017)
Journal Article

© 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

Psychology and literature

Mind and matter in the picture of Dorian gray (2013)
Journal Article

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.

Hardy, Tess and late-victorian theories of consciousness (2012)
Journal Article

Psychology and the idea of character (2011)
Book Chapter

George Eliot and Nineteenth-Century Psychology: Exploring the Unmapped Country. (2006)
Book

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..

Incongruous compounds: Re-reading jekyll and hyde and late-victorian psychology (2006)
Journal Article

Matter and thought: Eliot, Lewes, Huxley and the mind/body relationship (2004)
Journal Article

Evolution, memory and the self in The Mill on the Floss (2004)
Book Chapter