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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... particularly this very page. Lev Kaye, whose intellectual curiosity, humor, and generosity I've enjoyed in over twenty years of conversations and debates, did much to make the years of this book's writing less costly to its writer. I ...
... particularly this very page. Lev Kaye, whose intellectual curiosity, humor, and generosity I've enjoyed in over twenty years of conversations and debates, did much to make the years of this book's writing less costly to its writer. I ...
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... particularly the context of novel-reading, and had arrived at a complicated sense of the social and political stakes of these rhythms. Figures such as G. H. Lewes, Alexander Bain, E. S. Dallas, Geraldine Jewsbury, and Vernon Lee would ...
... particularly the context of novel-reading, and had arrived at a complicated sense of the social and political stakes of these rhythms. Figures such as G. H. Lewes, Alexander Bain, E. S. Dallas, Geraldine Jewsbury, and Vernon Lee would ...
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... particularly, the practices of physiological novel theory reveal cultural zones—nineteenth-century debates over the novel's role in shortening attention spans, diminishing the temporal reach of cognitive effort, and dangerously ...
... particularly, the practices of physiological novel theory reveal cultural zones—nineteenth-century debates over the novel's role in shortening attention spans, diminishing the temporal reach of cognitive effort, and dangerously ...
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... particularly fruitful place for a history of reading to turn. In many ways it can look like a Victorian version of the currently complex intersection between the history of audiences, media studies, and cognitive science, in which—as in ...
... particularly fruitful place for a history of reading to turn. In many ways it can look like a Victorian version of the currently complex intersection between the history of audiences, media studies, and cognitive science, in which—as in ...
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... particularly novels, and 'immersion' in computer gaming. 9 Roger Chartier, The Order of Books: Readers, Authors, and Libraries in Europe between the Fourteenth and Eighteenth Centuries, trans. Lydia Cochrane (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford ...
... particularly novels, and 'immersion' in computer gaming. 9 Roger Chartier, The Order of Books: Readers, Authors, and Libraries in Europe between the Fourteenth and Eighteenth Centuries, trans. Lydia Cochrane (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford ...
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