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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... READING: A CRITICAL PREHISTORY 1. Mass Reading and Physiological Novel Theory II. PRACTICES OF READING: FOUR CASES 2 ... Speed-Reading (Accelerated Form) Coda: I. A. Richards and the End of Physiological Novel Theory Bibliography Index ...
... READING: A CRITICAL PREHISTORY 1. Mass Reading and Physiological Novel Theory II. PRACTICES OF READING: FOUR CASES 2 ... Speed-Reading (Accelerated Form) Coda: I. A. Richards and the End of Physiological Novel Theory Bibliography Index ...
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... reading, from chapter 5 of Thackeray's Vanity Fair. Becky's bored inattention, from chapter 10 of Thackeray's Vanity ... speed-reading's first training device, from James McKeen Cattell, 'The Time Taken Up by Cerebral Operations' (1886) ...
... reading, from chapter 5 of Thackeray's Vanity Fair. Becky's bored inattention, from chapter 10 of Thackeray's Vanity ... speed-reading's first training device, from James McKeen Cattell, 'The Time Taken Up by Cerebral Operations' (1886) ...
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... reading than the answers provided by the methodologies of the contemporary history of reading, they are nonetheless ... speed of comprehension). These are only semi-autonomous categories; it was of course difficult to write on attention span ...
... reading than the answers provided by the methodologies of the contemporary history of reading, they are nonetheless ... speed of comprehension). These are only semi-autonomous categories; it was of course difficult to write on attention span ...
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... reading in time, particularly in the rhythms of attention and inattention, slow comprehension and rapid skipping ... speed-reading and Gissing); but the sense of the novel as a process rather than a structure was a fundamental part of ...
... reading in time, particularly in the rhythms of attention and inattention, slow comprehension and rapid skipping ... speed-reading and Gissing); but the sense of the novel as a process rather than a structure was a fundamental part of ...
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Reading, Neural Science, and the Form of Victorian Fiction Nicholas Dames. perhaps in part a result of its positivist ... speed of neural operations). Attached to these microsciences were a host of important cultural practices that ...
Reading, Neural Science, and the Form of Victorian Fiction Nicholas Dames. perhaps in part a result of its positivist ... speed of neural operations). Attached to these microsciences were a host of important cultural practices that ...
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