The Physiology of the Novel: Reading, Neural Science, and the Form of Victorian FictionOUP Oxford, 27. 9. 2007 - Počet stran: 277 How did the Victorians read novels? Nicholas Dames answers that deceptively simple question by revealing a now-forgotten range of nineteenth-century theories of the novel, a range based in a study of human physiology during the act of reading, He demonstrates the ways in which the Victorians thought they read, and uncovers surprising responses to the question of what might have transpired in the minds and bodies of readers of Victorian fiction. His detailed studies of novelcritics who were also interested in neurological science, combined with readings of novels by Thackeray, Eliot, Meredith, and Gissing, propose a vision of the Victorian novel-reader as far from the quietly immersed being we now imagine - as instead a reader whose nervous system was addressed, attacked, andsoothed by authors newly aware of the neural operations of their public. Rich in unexpected intersections, from the British response to Wagnerian opera to the birth of speed-reading in the late nineteenth century, The Physiology of the Novel challenges our assumptions about what novel-reading once did, and still does, to the individual reader, and provides new answers to the question of how novels influenced a culture's way of reading, responding, and feeling. |
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... present , immediately reveals one striking historical irony : that the Victorian novel has progressed from being considered a potentially disastrous fact in the history of consumption , enervating the intellects of its readers and ...
... present , immediately reveals one striking historical irony : that the Victorian novel has progressed from being considered a potentially disastrous fact in the history of consumption , enervating the intellects of its readers and ...
Strana 155
... present . Like the novel's self- quotations , they elaborately point the reader back to earlier situations or events , and they help to mnemonically organize distant thematic and plot material . Their recurrence , in other words ...
... present . Like the novel's self- quotations , they elaborately point the reader back to earlier situations or events , and they help to mnemonically organize distant thematic and plot material . Their recurrence , in other words ...
Strana 193
... present units detached from the flow of reading - as - usual . In the novel's ' Prelude ' , Meredith explains this as the central function of Comedy ( an idea not present in the Essay on Comedy ) : a practice of condensation , in both ...
... present units detached from the flow of reading - as - usual . In the novel's ' Prelude ' , Meredith explains this as the central function of Comedy ( an idea not present in the Essay on Comedy ) : a practice of condensation , in both ...
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List of Illustrations X | 1 |
Mass Reading and Physiological Novel Theory | 25 |
Thackeray and Attention | 73 |
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