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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... Their Texts', in Reception Study: From Literary Theory to Cultural Studies, ed. James Machor and Philip Goldstein (London: Routledge, 2001), 61–74. 10 The Letters of George Henry Lewes, ed. William Baker, 4 Introduction.
... Their Texts', in Reception Study: From Literary Theory to Cultural Studies, ed. James Machor and Philip Goldstein (London: Routledge, 2001), 61–74. 10 The Letters of George Henry Lewes, ed. William Baker, 4 Introduction.
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... reception as a mental act, particularly immersion or submergence in narrative, are attempted.8 7 Any list of important sources for the history of reading, centered on the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in Europe, must include the ...
... reception as a mental act, particularly immersion or submergence in narrative, are attempted.8 7 Any list of important sources for the history of reading, centered on the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in Europe, must include the ...
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... reception of texts rather than the text-as-object. Like Marx in his gnomic introduction to the Grundrisse, physiological novel theorists held that production 'not only creates an object for the subject, but also a subject for the object ...
... reception of texts rather than the text-as-object. Like Marx in his gnomic introduction to the Grundrisse, physiological novel theorists held that production 'not only creates an object for the subject, but also a subject for the object ...
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... reception, or, as with Gissing's New Grub Street, embattled and defensive reactions to the perceived threat of a newer version of the physiology of reading. I have found that the most provocative routes into physiological novel theory's ...
... reception, or, as with Gissing's New Grub Street, embattled and defensive reactions to the perceived threat of a newer version of the physiology of reading. I have found that the most provocative routes into physiological novel theory's ...
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... reception engendered by physiology had intimate connections to a set of what one might call 'microsciences', or evanescent yet influential scientific formations, such as acoustic natural science (or scientific musicology) ...
... reception engendered by physiology had intimate connections to a set of what one might call 'microsciences', or evanescent yet influential scientific formations, such as acoustic natural science (or scientific musicology) ...
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