Post-Romantic Consciousness: Dickens to Plath

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In this sequel to Romantic Consciousness , John Beer discusses further questionings of human consciousness: both the degree to which Dickens’s conscious dramatizing differs from the subconscious workings of his psyche and the exploration of subliminal consciousness by 19th century psychical researchers. Discussions of questions of Being by thinkers such as Heidegger, Sartre and Havel are accompanied by the assertion that creative writers such as Woolf and Lawrence, followed by Hughes and Plath, showed a deeper debt than philosophical contemporaries to their Romantic predecessors.