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 form, from Punch, 107 (July 28, 1894) 37. The path of the eye during reading, from Edmund Huey, The ... Theory À quelle List of Illustrations.
... literary form, from Punch, 107 (July 28, 1894) 37. The path of the eye during reading, from Edmund Huey, The ... Theory À quelle List of Illustrations.
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... Theory À quelle discipline ressortit une théorie de la lecture? Ricoeur ... literary studies it would be to rejoin them with experimental science ... literary practice to the quite different practice of experimental observation. That ...
... Theory À quelle discipline ressortit une théorie de la lecture? Ricoeur ... literary studies it would be to rejoin them with experimental science ... literary practice to the quite different practice of experimental observation. That ...
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... theory of the novel at all.3 Williams's seemingly forward-looking desire for a juncture of science and literary criticism was more Victorian than he knew. In the mid to late nineteenth century some of the period's most eminent and ...
... theory of the novel at all.3 Williams's seemingly forward-looking desire for a juncture of science and literary criticism was more Victorian than he knew. In the mid to late nineteenth century some of the period's most eminent and ...
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... literary theory that I will call 'the physiology of the novel' is the first claim of this book, and a large part of what follows is dedicated to tracing its most important practitioners, its central texts and influences, its ...
... literary theory that I will call 'the physiology of the novel' is the first claim of this book, and a large part of what follows is dedicated to tracing its most important practitioners, its central texts and influences, its ...
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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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