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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... inattention, from chapter 10 of Thackeray's Vanity Fair. The absorptive state of the child, from chapter 7 of Thackeray'sVanity Fair. 'J.J. in Dreamland', from chapter 11 of Thackeray's The Newcomes. 'Music at Home', from 'Punch's ...
... inattention, from chapter 10 of Thackeray's Vanity Fair. The absorptive state of the child, from chapter 7 of Thackeray'sVanity Fair. 'J.J. in Dreamland', from chapter 11 of Thackeray's The Newcomes. 'Music at Home', from 'Punch's ...
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... 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 from it. That ...
... 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 from it. That ...
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... inattention, slow comprehension and rapid skipping ahead, buildups and discharges of affect. What it sought to specify was what Arjun Appadurai has called the 'structuring temporal rhythm' of a 'socially regulated set of consumption ...
... inattention, slow comprehension and rapid skipping ahead, buildups and discharges of affect. What it sought to specify was what Arjun Appadurai has called the 'structuring temporal rhythm' of a 'socially regulated set of consumption ...
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... 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 associated ...
... 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 associated ...
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... inattentive, patchy, and immature reading. All the more interesting, then, that the Victorian novel occupies a very different role today as a common locus for reading as an engaged, fully alert, 29 Alfred Austin, 'The Vice of Reading ...
... inattentive, patchy, and immature reading. All the more interesting, then, that the Victorian novel occupies a very different role today as a common locus for reading as an engaged, fully alert, 29 Alfred Austin, 'The Vice of Reading ...
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