The Physiology of the Novel: Reading, Neural Science, and the Form of Victorian FictionOUP Oxford, 27. 9. 2007 - Počet stran: 288 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 novel critics 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, and soothed 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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... for so committed 1 Raymond Williams, Politics and Letters: Interviews with New Left Review (London: Verso, 1981), 341. a historicist critic, and poignant not only because he never Introduction: Toward a History of Victorian Novel Theory.
... for so committed 1 Raymond Williams, Politics and Letters: Interviews with New Left Review (London: Verso, 1981), 341. a historicist critic, and poignant not only because he never Introduction: Toward a History of Victorian Novel Theory.
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... reviewer of the other's work. Dallas's position as anonymous novel critic for The Times in the 1850s and 1860s, as well as his friendship with John Blackwood, brought him to the attention of Lewes and Eliot both. For more details, see ...
... reviewer of the other's work. Dallas's position as anonymous novel critic for The Times in the 1850s and 1860s, as well as his friendship with John Blackwood, brought him to the attention of Lewes and Eliot both. For more details, see ...
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... reviewer's physical and psychological reaction to the work in question (discomfort, boredom, excitement), gain new ... review of Dickens's Great Expectations with an analysis of the 'little half-hours and quarters throughout the day ...
... reviewer's physical and psychological reaction to the work in question (discomfort, boredom, excitement), gain new ... review of Dickens's Great Expectations with an analysis of the 'little half-hours and quarters throughout the day ...
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... reviews of sensation fiction were explicitly physiological, as was the fiction's thematic and material shape.24 Precisely because of this normalization, this book will turn to neither Dickens nor any of the sensation novelists of the ...
... reviews of sensation fiction were explicitly physiological, as was the fiction's thematic and material shape.24 Precisely because of this normalization, this book will turn to neither Dickens nor any of the sensation novelists of the ...
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... reviews, periodical essays, or psychological textbooks as in literary monographs or surveys.4 Furthermore, the 'theory' these writers produced was resolutely ahistorical; unlike such earlier works as Clara Reeve's The Progress of ...
... reviews, periodical essays, or psychological textbooks as in literary monographs or surveys.4 Furthermore, the 'theory' these writers produced was resolutely ahistorical; unlike such earlier works as Clara Reeve's The Progress of ...
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