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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... readerly comprehension and cognition that this body of theory posed. But a second, perhaps wider, and certainly more speculative claim animates my recovery of physiological novel theory: that our own theories of the novel could be ...
... readerly comprehension and cognition that this body of theory posed. But a second, perhaps wider, and certainly more speculative claim animates my recovery of physiological novel theory: that our own theories of the novel could be ...
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... readerly response in favor of organic wholes. As Poovey writes, 'continued reliance on the trope of the organic whole keeps us from developing a methodology that could analyze what this metaphor effaced in the first place: reading'.21 ...
... readerly response in favor of organic wholes. As Poovey writes, 'continued reliance on the trope of the organic whole keeps us from developing a methodology that could analyze what this metaphor effaced in the first place: reading'.21 ...
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... readerly attention that it employs and seeks to make normative. The attention requested by physiological novel theory, and so pervasively present in the period's criticism, is pitched toward the forward momentum of reading, its pure ...
... readerly attention that it employs and seeks to make normative. The attention requested by physiological novel theory, and so pervasively present in the period's criticism, is pitched toward the forward momentum of reading, its pure ...
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... readerly liberty; in Chapter 4 we will see reading in short 'bits', usually associated with barely literate readers, reimagined as the foundation of George Meredith's polished and sophisticated novelistic practice, as a way to heal the ...
... readerly liberty; in Chapter 4 we will see reading in short 'bits', usually associated with barely literate readers, reimagined as the foundation of George Meredith's polished and sophisticated novelistic practice, as a way to heal the ...
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... readerly cognition. Thus Alfred Austin, in his 1874 assessment 'The Vice of Reading': 'Reading, as at present conducted, is rapidly destroying all thinking and all powers of thought.' Austin's condemnation is pointed specifically at ...
... readerly cognition. Thus Alfred Austin, in his 1874 assessment 'The Vice of Reading': 'Reading, as at present conducted, is rapidly destroying all thinking and all powers of thought.' Austin's condemnation is pointed specifically at ...
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