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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... cognitive conditions of what Nell terms 'ludic reading'. In a technologically, if not methodologically, advanced version of Victorian physiological studies of reading, Nell connected laboratory subjects—readers—to translucent goggles ...
... cognitive conditions of what Nell terms 'ludic reading'. In a technologically, if not methodologically, advanced version of Victorian physiological studies of reading, Nell connected laboratory subjects—readers—to translucent goggles ...
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... cognition that this body of theory posed. But a second, perhaps wider, and certainly more speculative claim animates my recovery of physiological novel theory: that our own theories of the novel could be refreshed by taking into account ...
... cognition that this body of theory posed. But a second, perhaps wider, and certainly more speculative claim animates my recovery of physiological novel theory: that our own theories of the novel could be refreshed by taking into account ...
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... cognitive effort, and dangerously accelerating textual consumption—where the reach of the novel as a cultural technology is both profound and as yet little understood, today every bit as much as in the nineteenth century. In other words ...
... cognitive effort, and dangerously accelerating textual consumption—where the reach of the novel as a cultural technology is both profound and as yet little understood, today every bit as much as in the nineteenth century. In other words ...
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... cognitive science, in which—as in the work of Mary Ann Doane, Elaine Scarry, and Ellen Spolsky—complex theories and histories of aesthetic reception as a mental act, particularly immersion or submergence in narrative, are attempted.8 7 ...
... cognitive science, in which—as in the work of Mary Ann Doane, Elaine Scarry, and Ellen Spolsky—complex theories and histories of aesthetic reception as a mental act, particularly immersion or submergence in narrative, are attempted.8 7 ...
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... cognitive science, it does center on the history of neural science in the Victorian period in its relation to literary practices and critical protocols. In that sense, it is also part of the emergent interest in a history of literary ...
... cognitive science, it does center on the history of neural science in the Victorian period in its relation to literary practices and critical protocols. In that sense, it is also part of the emergent interest in a history of literary ...
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