“Secrets of the Heart”: Emotion, Narration, and Imaginary Minds in Hard Times and Mary Barton

Research Article| March 01 2010 “Secrets of the Heart”: Emotion, Narration, and Imaginary Minds in Hard Times and Mary Barton Jill L. Matus Jill L. Matus University of Toronto jill.matus@utoronto.ca Jill Matus is professor of English at the University of Toronto. Her research focuses mainly on Victorian literature and culture, especially the relations of Victorian fiction to medical and psychological writing of the period. She is the author of Unstable Bodies: Victorian Representations of Sexuality and Maternity (Manchester University Press, 1995), Toni Morrison (Manchester University Press, 1998) and Shock, Memory, and the Unconscious in Victorian Fiction, (Cambridge University Press, 2009), as well as editor of The Cambridge Companion to Elizabeth Gaskell (2007). Essays on Dickens, the Brontës, George Eliot, Gaskell and others have appeared in such journals as Victorian Studies, Victorian Literature and Culture, Nineteenth-Century Contexts, Literature Compass, and Journal of the History of Sexuality. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google English Language Notes (2010) 48 (1): 11–25. https://doi.org/10.1215/00138282-48.1.11 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Jill L. Matus; “Secrets of the Heart”: Emotion, Narration, and Imaginary Minds in Hard Times and Mary Barton. English Language Notes 1 March 2010; 48 (1): 11–25. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/00138282-48.1.11 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search Books & JournalsAll JournalsEnglish Language Notes Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. Copyright © 2010 Regents of the University of Colorado2010 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal Issue Section: I. The Politics of Affect You do not currently have access to this content.