The Physiology of the Novel : Reading, Neural Science, and the Form of Victorian Fiction.
Title:
The Physiology of the Novel : Reading, Neural Science, and the Form of Victorian Fiction.
Author:
Dames, Nicholas.
ISBN:
9780191526114
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (288 pages)
Contents:
Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction: Toward a History of Victorian Novel Theory -- I. THEORIES OF READING: A CRITICAL PREHISTORY -- 1 Mass Reading and Physiological Novel Theory -- II. PRACTICES OF READING: FOUR CASES -- 2 Distraction's Negative Liberty: Thackeray and Attention -- 3 Melodies for the Forgetful: Eliot, Wagner, and Duration -- 4 Just Noticeable Differences: Meredith and Fragmentation -- 5 The Eye as Motor: Gissing and Speed-Reading -- Coda I. A. Richards and the End of Physiological Novel Theory -- Bibliography -- Index -- Footnotes -- introduction_fn1 -- introduction_fn2 -- introduction_fn3 -- introduction_fn4 -- introduction_fn5 -- introduction_fn6 -- introduction_fn7 -- introduction_fn8 -- introduction_fn9 -- introduction_fn10 -- introduction_fn11 -- introduction_fn12 -- introduction_fn13 -- introduction_fn14 -- introduction_fn15 -- introduction_fn16 -- introduction_fn17 -- introduction_fn18 -- introduction_fn19 -- introduction_fn20 -- introduction_fn21 -- introduction_fn22 -- introduction_fn23 -- introduction_fn24 -- introduction_fn25 -- introduction_fn26 -- introduction_fn27 -- introduction_fn28 -- introduction_fn29 -- introduction_fn30 -- introduction_fn31 -- introduction_fn32 -- introduction_fn33 -- introduction_fn34 -- introduction_fn35 -- introduction_fn36 -- introduction_fn37 -- introduction_fn38 -- introduction_fn39 -- introduction_fn40 -- ch01_fn1 -- ch01_fn2 -- ch01_fn3 -- ch01_fn4 -- ch01_fn5 -- ch01_fn6 -- ch01_fn7 -- ch01_fn8 -- ch01_fn9 -- ch01_fn10 -- ch01_fn11 -- ch01_fn12 -- ch01_fn13 -- ch01_fn14 -- ch01_fn15 -- ch01_fn16 -- ch01_fn17 -- ch01_fn18 -- ch01_fn19 -- ch01_fn20 -- ch01_fn21 -- ch01_fn22 -- ch01_fn23 -- ch01_fn24 -- ch01_fn25 -- ch01_fn26 -- ch01_fn27 -- ch01_fn28 -- ch01_fn29 -- ch01_fn30 -- ch01_fn31.
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Abstract:
How did the Victorians read novels? Nicholas Dames answers that deceptively simple question by revealing a now-forgotten range of 19th-century theories of the novel, based in a study of human physiology during the act of reading. He shows us 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.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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