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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... literary studies it would be to rejoin them with experimental science ... literary practice to the quite different practice of experimental observation. That would ... critic, and poignant not only because he never Introduction: Toward a ...
... literary studies it would be to rejoin them with experimental science ... literary practice to the quite different practice of experimental observation. That would ... critic, and poignant not only because he never Introduction: Toward a ...
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... literary criticism was more Victorian than he knew. In the mid to late nineteenth century some of the period's most eminent and prolific critics of the novel had already written on the 'life rhythms' of literary forms and reading ...
... literary criticism was more Victorian than he knew. In the mid to late nineteenth century some of the period's most eminent and prolific critics of the novel had already written on the 'life rhythms' of literary forms and reading ...
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... criticism is explicit about what 'experimental science' could do for literary theory: give both rigor and nuance to our accounts of reading by tying reading to the rhythms of the body, a goal that is by definition physiological. Left ...
... criticism is explicit about what 'experimental science' could do for literary theory: give both rigor and nuance to our accounts of reading by tying reading to the rhythms of the body, a goal that is by definition physiological. Left ...
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... literary theory and the history of books', physiological novel theory as Victorian critics practiced it presents us with a model—flawed, obsolete, and yet rich in its ambitions and often in its results—for what that might look like.5 As ...
... literary theory and the history of books', physiological novel theory as Victorian critics practiced it presents us with a model—flawed, obsolete, and yet rich in its ambitions and often in its results—for what that might look like.5 As ...
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... literary criticism. While this book will not engage to any large degree with contemporary cognitive science, it does center on the history of neural science in the Victorian period in its relation to literary practices and critical ...
... literary criticism. While this book will not engage to any large degree with contemporary cognitive science, it does center on the history of neural science in the Victorian period in its relation to literary practices and critical ...
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