LEADER 03645nam 2200721 a 450 001 9910792227603321 005 20230721015342.0 010 $a0-19-160727-4 010 $a0-19-152611-8 010 $a1-281-16061-X 010 $a1-4356-0983-2 010 $a9786611160616 035 $a(CKB)2560000000295972 035 $a(EBL)415944 035 $a(OCoLC)437096372 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000221665 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11201826 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000221665 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10162477 035 $a(PQKB)10028952 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000022767 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC415944 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL415944 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10197120 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL116061 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC7034518 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL7034518 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000295972 100 $a20070413d2007 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe physiology of the novel$b[electronic resource] $ereading, neural science, and the form of Victorian fiction /$fNicholas Dames 210 $aOxford ;$aNew York $cOxford University Press$d2007 215 $a1 online resource (771 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-19-920896-4 311 $a0-19-169575-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [256]-272) and index. 327 $aCover 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 327 $aFoot notes introduction_fn1; introduction_fn2; introduction 330 $aHow 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 the 606 $aEnglish literature$y19th century$xHistory and criticism$xTheory, etc 606 $aEnglish literature$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aBooks and reading$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aReader-response criticism$zGreat Britain 606 $aLiterature and society$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y19th century 615 0$aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism$xTheory, etc. 615 0$aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aBooks and reading$xHistory 615 0$aReader-response criticism 615 0$aLiterature and society$xHistory 676 $a820.9008 700 $aDames$b Nicholas$f1970-$01584891 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910792227603321 996 $aThe physiology of the novel$93868984 997 $aUNINA