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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... Distraction's Negative Liberty: Thackeray and Attention (Intermittent Form) 3. Melodies for the Forgetful: Eliot, Wagner, and Duration (Elongated Form) 4. Just Noticeable Differences: Meredith and Fragmentation (Discontinuous Form) 5 ...
... Distraction's Negative Liberty: Thackeray and Attention (Intermittent Form) 3. Melodies for the Forgetful: Eliot, Wagner, and Duration (Elongated Form) 4. Just Noticeable Differences: Meredith and Fragmentation (Discontinuous Form) 5 ...
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... distracted inattention locking onto ever smaller units of comprehension. From the vantage-point of the physiological criticism that engaged it, the Victorian novel was a training ground for industrialized consciousness, not a refuge ...
... distracted inattention locking onto ever smaller units of comprehension. From the vantage-point of the physiological criticism that engaged it, the Victorian novel was a training ground for industrialized consciousness, not a refuge ...
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... distracted or inattentive reading, a hallmark of conservative jeremiads about mass reading habits, marked out by theorists like Herbert Spencer as a practice of readerly liberty; in Chapter 4 we will see reading in short 'bits', usually ...
... distracted or inattentive reading, a hallmark of conservative jeremiads about mass reading habits, marked out by theorists like Herbert Spencer as a practice of readerly liberty; in Chapter 4 we will see reading in short 'bits', usually ...
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... distracted consumption, or offering a passage into a world of strenuous, even athletic imagination. This would seem to suggest the following: that from its time to ours, the reader of Victorian fiction, in the cognitive activity she ...
... distracted consumption, or offering a passage into a world of strenuous, even athletic imagination. This would seem to suggest the following: that from its time to ours, the reader of Victorian fiction, in the cognitive activity she ...
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... distraction. The problem of elongated artistic forms—forms whose length makes continuous, heightened attention impossible and acts of recollection difficult—is explored in Chapter 3 by triangulating Richard Wagner's impact upon British ...
... distraction. The problem of elongated artistic forms—forms whose length makes continuous, heightened attention impossible and acts of recollection difficult—is explored in Chapter 3 by triangulating Richard Wagner's impact upon British ...
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