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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... word of this book was written, I can only say that the daily marvel of his flourishing self brightened beyond measure the world that reappeared whenever my work was put aside. This page intentionally left blank Contents List of ...
... word of this book was written, I can only say that the daily marvel of his flourishing self brightened beyond measure the world that reappeared whenever my work was put aside. This page intentionally left blank Contents List of ...
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... words, if in his famous article 'First Steps Toward a History of Reading', Robert Darnton has called for 'a juncture between literary theory and the history of books', physiological novel theory as Victorian critics practiced it ...
... words, if in his famous article 'First Steps Toward a History of Reading', Robert Darnton has called for 'a juncture between literary theory and the history of books', physiological novel theory as Victorian critics practiced it ...
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... words, 'it must postulate the liberty of a practice that it can only grasp, massively, in its determinations'.9 It was also the question, if more optimistically posed, of the Victorian neural sciences in their collaboration with ...
... words, 'it must postulate the liberty of a practice that it can only grasp, massively, in its determinations'.9 It was also the question, if more optimistically posed, of the Victorian neural sciences in their collaboration with ...
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... word 'form' plays an important role in the chapters that follow, because its history within Victorian writings on the novel reveals important differences from our habitual use of the term. Physiological concepts taught the critics who ...
... word 'form' plays an important role in the chapters that follow, because its history within Victorian writings on the novel reveals important differences from our habitual use of the term. Physiological concepts taught the critics who ...
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... tastes. The political stakes of physiological novel theory 28 Wilkie Collins, 'The Unknown Public', Household Words 18 (21 Aug. 1855), 222. are often opaque, and somewhat volatile, but continually challenge our Introduction 15.
... tastes. The political stakes of physiological novel theory 28 Wilkie Collins, 'The Unknown Public', Household Words 18 (21 Aug. 1855), 222. are often opaque, and somewhat volatile, but continually challenge our Introduction 15.
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