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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... theorists can be considered media theorists avant la lettre; like McLuhan would a century later, they would understand the novel as 'an extension of ourselves involving us in a state of numbness', a strategy of 'equilibrium for the ...
... theorists can be considered media theorists avant la lettre; like McLuhan would a century later, they would understand the novel as 'an extension of ourselves involving us in a state of numbness', a strategy of 'equilibrium for the ...
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... theorists is striking and symptomatic. The eighteenth-century novel, not to mention earlier fiction, vanishes entirely in its lens. This is 23 E. S. Dallas [anon.], 'Great Expectations', The Times, 17 Oct. 1861, 6. 24 See Alison Winter ...
... theorists is striking and symptomatic. The eighteenth-century novel, not to mention earlier fiction, vanishes entirely in its lens. This is 23 E. S. Dallas [anon.], 'Great Expectations', The Times, 17 Oct. 1861, 6. 24 See Alison Winter ...
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... theorists presents a different picture. Where we might expect fear of mass reading, we get celebrations of its spread; where we look for attempts to shape the tastes or practices of this 'unknown public', we get a tendency to treat ...
... theorists presents a different picture. Where we might expect fear of mass reading, we get celebrations of its spread; where we look for attempts to shape the tastes or practices of this 'unknown public', we get a tendency to treat ...
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... theorists, in fact, was an assertion that no theory of the novel preexisted them, and that therefore no serious debate with any predecessor was necessary by way of ground clearing. So successful has this strategy been that even the most ...
... theorists, in fact, was an assertion that no theory of the novel preexisted them, and that therefore no serious debate with any predecessor was necessary by way of ground clearing. So successful has this strategy been that even the most ...
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... theorists—G. H. Lewes (1817–78), Alexander Bain (1818–1903), E. S. Dallas (1828–79), Hippolyte Taine (1828–93), and Émile Hennequin (1858–88) most notably, followed later in the century by Vernon Lee (1856–1935)—as well as influential ...
... theorists—G. H. Lewes (1817–78), Alexander Bain (1818–1903), E. S. Dallas (1828–79), Hippolyte Taine (1828–93), and Émile Hennequin (1858–88) most notably, followed later in the century by Vernon Lee (1856–1935)—as well as influential ...
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