04827nam 2200661 450 991046622710332120200520144314.01-4214-2013-9(CKB)3710000000848919(EBL)4531463(MiAaPQ)EBC4531463(OCoLC)958220524(MdBmJHUP)muse53206(Au-PeEL)EBL4531463(CaPaEBR)ebr11270090(OCoLC)958448894(EXLCZ)99371000000084891920161004h20162016 uy 0engur|n|---|||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierDistraction problems of attention in eighteenth-century literature /Natalie M. PhillipsBaltimore, Maryland :Johns Hopkins University Press,2016.©20161 online resource (303 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-4214-2012-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Introduction: The Literary History of Distraction; The Unifocal and the Multifocal; The Rise of the Distracted Character; Attention, Distraction, and Enlightenment Philosophy of Mind; A Swiftly Tilting Madness; Categorizing Distraction; 1 Mind Wandering: Forms of Distraction in the Eighteenth-Century Essay; Distraction and the Eighteenth-Century Essay; The Rhetoric of Attention: Appealing to Pathos and Brevitas; The Essay as a Tool of Focus; Training Attention to Attention; Strengthening Focus: Repetition and Dramatic IronyEconomies of AttentionThe History of Attention Span; 2 Lapses of Concentration: Distracted Vigilance and the Female Mind; Environment and Mind: Urban Diversion and the Distracted Brain; The Problem of a Soft Female Mind; Sex, Environment, and the Multifocal Coquette; The Challenges of Situational Awareness; Philosophizing Multiplicity: Cognitive Bottlenecks and Sorting Gloves; Strained Omniscience and the Distracted Heroine; The Crowded Syntax of Sexual Inattention; "Might as Well Be Passed Over as Read": Indulging the Diverted Reader3 Scattered Attention: Distraction and the Rhythm of Cognitive OverloadRhythms of Narrative, Rhythms of Mind; Tristram's Style and the Scattered Rhythms of Cognitive Overload; Susannah and the Vexed Situation of Madam Reader; The Anatomy of Parallel Processing; The Sermon and Rhythms of Distraction; Hobbyhorses and the Individual Beat of Interest; Irregular Distraction: The Tempo of Cognitive Overload; Rhythms of the Brain: Creativity and the Timing of Distraction; 4 Fixated Attention: The Gothic Pathology of Single-Minded Focus; Microscope and MindScientific Metaphors and the Madness of AttentionThe Politics and Poetics of Fixation; Involuntary Attention: A Multifocal Selective Blindness; Sympathy and the Bene.ts of Distraction; Rewriting Suspense: Interruption and the Gothic Sublime; Fixation and the Science of Obsession; 5 Divided Attention: Characterization and Cognitive Richness in Jane Austen; The Power of Multitasking in Pride and Prejudice; The Singular Importance of Inattentive Characters; Mr. Hurst: The Limited Capacity of the Undivided Mind; Mrs. Jenkinson: Narrow Bandwidth and the Creation of DepthLydia and Miss Bingley: Caricaturing Cognitive VacancyThe Dangers of Too Much Attention; Distraction as Liveliness of Mind; Mary Bennet: Hyperfocus and Cognitive Immobility; Lady Catherine de Bourgh: The Problem of Excessive Vigilance; Elizabeth Bennet: The Bene.ts of Diversion; Characterizing Reading: Maps of Distraction and Interest; Coda: History of Mind and Literary Neuroscience; Interdisciplinarity: From Theory to Practice; Literary Attention: An fMRI Study of Reading Jane Austen; The Value of Literary History; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; RSEnlightenmentGreat BritainPsychology and literatureHistory18th centuryDistraction (Psychology)Interest (Psychology)Cognition in literatureEnglish literature18th centuryHistory and criticismElectronic books.EnlightenmentPsychology and literatureHistoryDistraction (Psychology)Interest (Psychology)Cognition in literature.English literatureHistory and criticism.820.9/353Phillips Natalie M.961627MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910466227103321Distraction2180178UNINA02985nam 2200649 a 450 991097109990332120240514071949.097816170315331617031534heb40107(CKB)3170000000046053(EBL)819517(OCoLC)777938938(SSID)ssj0000570318(PQKBManifestationID)11358613(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000570318(PQKBWorkID)10605814(PQKB)10861298(StDuBDS)EDZ0000206518(MiAaPQ)EBC819517(MdBmJHUP)muse849(Au-PeEL)EBL819517(CaPaEBR)ebr10521473(dli)heb40107.0001.001(MiU)MIU401070001001(EXLCZ)99317000000004605320110413d2012 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrAfrica in the American imagination popular culture, racialized identities, and African visual culture /Carol Magee1st ed.Jackson [Miss.] University Press of Mississippi20121 online resource (280 p.)Description based upon print version of record.9781617031526 1617031526 Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction : popular culture, racialized identities, and African visual culture -- Race-ing fantasy : the Sports illustrated swimsuit issue in South Africa -- "It's sort of like National geographic meets Sports illustrated" -- Fashioning identities : Kente, nostalgia, and the world of Barbie -- It's a small, white world -- Africa in Florida : Disney's Animal Kingdom Lodge -- Refrain : Africa in the American imagination.In the American world, the presence of African culture is sometimes fully embodied and sometimes leaves only a trace. Africa in the American Imagination: Popular Culture, Racialized Identities, and African Visual Culture explores this presence, examining Mattel's world of Barbie, the 1996 Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue, and Disney World, each of which repackages African visual culture for consumers. Because these cultural icons permeate American life, they represent the broader U.S. culture and its relationship to African culture. This study integrates approaches from art history and visualPopular cultureUnited StatesIdentity (Philosophical concept)United StatesCivilizationAfrican influencesAfricaIn popular culturePopular cultureIdentity (Philosophical concept)306.0973Magee Carol L1793742MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910971099903321Africa in the American imagination4333709UNINA