Unfolding the Mind: The Unconscious in American Romanticism and Literary Theory

American writers in the 1830’s and 1840’s felt the need for a new terminology to express their awakening perception of new aspects of the mind. Without words like the unconscious vast areas of the psyche would have remained unexpressed and thus unapproachable. This discovery of the unconscious constitutes to the theme of this study, which was first published in 1987. This title will be of interest to students of literary theory.