Using a cognitive approach to literature, this book uncovers representations of self-consciousness in selected modern British novels, exposing it as complicating character development. Miller provides new readings of works by Conrad, Joyce, and D.H. Lawrence to demonstrate the emergence of a self who feels split from the world.

Brook Miller is Associate Professor of English at the University of Minnesota, Morris, USA. His research is on 19th and 20th-century British literature and he is the author of America in the British Imaginary in Turn-of-the-Twentieth-Century Literature (2010).