03645nam 2200721 a 450 991079222760332120230721015342.00-19-160727-40-19-152611-81-281-16061-X1-4356-0983-29786611160616(CKB)2560000000295972(EBL)415944(OCoLC)437096372(SSID)ssj0000221665(PQKBManifestationID)11201826(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000221665(PQKBWorkID)10162477(PQKB)10028952(StDuBDS)EDZ0000022767(MiAaPQ)EBC415944(Au-PeEL)EBL415944(CaPaEBR)ebr10197120(CaONFJC)MIL116061(MiAaPQ)EBC7034518(Au-PeEL)EBL7034518(EXLCZ)99256000000029597220070413d2007 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtccrThe physiology of the novel[electronic resource] reading, neural science, and the form of Victorian fiction /Nicholas DamesOxford ;New York Oxford University Press20071 online resource (771 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-19-920896-4 0-19-169575-0 Includes bibliographical references (p. [256]-272) and index.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; IndexFoot notes introduction_fn1; introduction_fn2; introductionHow 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. - ;How did the Victorians read novels? Nicholas Dames answers that deceptively simple question by revealing a now-forgotten range of nineteenth-century theories of theEnglish literature19th centuryHistory and criticismTheory, etcEnglish literature19th centuryHistory and criticismBooks and readingGreat BritainHistory19th centuryReader-response criticismGreat BritainLiterature and societyGreat BritainHistory19th centuryEnglish literatureHistory and criticismTheory, etc.English literatureHistory and criticism.Books and readingHistoryReader-response criticismLiterature and societyHistory820.9008Dames Nicholas1970-1584891MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910792227603321The physiology of the novel3868984UNINA