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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... fact, already been practiced in Britain, a century earlier, by a loosely affiliated coterie of scientists, journalists, and intellectuals who brought the experimental study of human physiology to bear upon the facts of novel-reading, as ...
... fact, already been practiced in Britain, a century earlier, by a loosely affiliated coterie of scientists, journalists, and intellectuals who brought the experimental study of human physiology to bear upon the facts of novel-reading, as ...
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... fact, reading the nineteenth-century novel—are continually being recruited into contemporary debates about literature and civic virtue, which not only potentially distort and misrepresent the actual rhythms and practices of novel ...
... fact, reading the nineteenth-century novel—are continually being recruited into contemporary debates about literature and civic virtue, which not only potentially distort and misrepresent the actual rhythms and practices of novel ...
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... facts, but the lengthiness of Fielding or Richardson fails to enter his famous catalogue of the features of 'formal ... fact, that in physiological novel theory the act of novel-reading seems like a performance—a performance enacted in ...
... facts, but the lengthiness of Fielding or Richardson fails to enter his famous catalogue of the features of 'formal ... fact, that in physiological novel theory the act of novel-reading seems like a performance—a performance enacted in ...
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... fact tended to be oriented solely toward contemporary fiction, particularly the towering examples of Dickens, who might even be thought of as (by virtue of his extreme popularity) the spur for the theory in the first place, and ...
... fact tended to be oriented solely toward contemporary fiction, particularly the towering examples of Dickens, who might even be thought of as (by virtue of his extreme popularity) the spur for the theory in the first place, and ...
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... fact of mass literacy is characteristic of much Victorian discourse on the mass reading public, at least for those ... facts, particularly the kind of response given to novels, in surprising ways. In Chapter 2, we will see distracted or ...
... fact of mass literacy is characteristic of much Victorian discourse on the mass reading public, at least for those ... facts, particularly the kind of response given to novels, in surprising ways. In Chapter 2, we will see distracted or ...
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