03697nam 22007215 450 991083823220332120191022022751.00-226-46220-X10.7208/9780226457468(CKB)3710000001118542(MiAaPQ)EBC4826789(StDuBDS)EDZ0001672893(DE-B1597)523897(OCoLC)979417511(DE-B1597)9780226457468(EXLCZ)99371000000111854220191022d2017 fg engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierThe Outward Mind Materialist Aesthetics in Victorian Science and Literature /Benjamin MorganChicago : University of Chicago Press, [2017]©20171 online resource (380 pages) illustrationsPreviously issued in print: 2017.0-226-44211-X 0-226-45746-X Includes bibliographical references and index.Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: Materialist Aesthetics -- Part One: Toward a Science of Beauty -- Part Two: The Outward Turn -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- IndexThough underexplored in contemporary scholarship, the Victorian attempts to turn aesthetics into a science remain one of the most fascinating aspects of that era. In The Outward Mind, Benjamin Morgan approaches this period of innovation as an important origin point for current attempts to understand art or beauty using the tools of the sciences. Moving chronologically from natural theology in the early nineteenth century to laboratory psychology in the early twentieth, Morgan draws on little-known archives of Victorian intellectuals such as William Morris, Walter Pater, John Ruskin, and others to argue that scientific studies of mind and emotion transformed the way writers and artists understood the experience of beauty and effectively redescribed aesthetic judgment as a biological adaptation. Looking beyond the Victorian period to humanistic critical theory today, he also shows how the historical relationship between science and aesthetics could be a vital resource for rethinking key concepts in contemporary literary and cultural criticism, such as materialism, empathy, practice, and form. At a moment when the tumultuous relationship between the sciences and the humanities is the subject of ongoing debate, Morgan argues for the importance of understanding the arts and sciences as incontrovertibly intertwined.AestheticsPsychological aspectsArtsPsychological aspectsAesthetics, British19th centuryAuthors, English19th centuryAestheticsMaterialismEnglandHistory19th centuryNeuroanthropologyAlexander Bain.John Ruskin.Vernon Lee.Walter Pater.William Morris.affect.empathy.form.materialism.physiological aesthetics.AestheticsPsychological aspects.ArtsPsychological aspects.Aesthetics, BritishAuthors, EnglishAesthetics.MaterialismHistoryNeuroanthropology.111/.8509034HL 1004rvkMorgan Benjamin, 1731443DE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK9910838232203321The Outward Mind4144101UNINA