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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... Science, and the Form of Victorian Fiction Nicholas Dames. The Physiology of the Novel Reading, Neural Science, and the Form of Victorian Fiction NICHOLAS DAMES 1 1 Great Clarendon Street, Oxford ox2 6dp Oxford University Press.
... Science, and the Form of Victorian Fiction Nicholas Dames. The Physiology of the Novel Reading, Neural Science, and the Form of Victorian Fiction NICHOLAS DAMES 1 1 Great Clarendon Street, Oxford ox2 6dp Oxford University Press.
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... University Press provided detailed and imaginative readings of the book. My gratitude extends as well to audiences at Berkeley, Indiana, Harvard, Princeton, Vanderbilt, and Yale, whose responses continually spurred my thinking. To Mark ...
... University Press provided detailed and imaginative readings of the book. My gratitude extends as well to audiences at Berkeley, Indiana, Harvard, Princeton, Vanderbilt, and Yale, whose responses continually spurred my thinking. To Mark ...
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... University Press, Jean van Altena, Clare Jenkins, Andrew McNeillie, Tom Perridge, and Val Shelley were both patient with my inexplicable delays and swift in guiding this book through to completion. The staffs and resources of the ...
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... University Press, 1988). 3 Not entirely overlooked, however: Kate Flint's work on medicalized language about reading—particularly as it related to the consumption of women—stands out for its attention to the period's physiological ...
... University Press, 1988). 3 Not entirely overlooked, however: Kate Flint's work on medicalized language about reading—particularly as it related to the consumption of women—stands out for its attention to the period's physiological ...
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