LEADER 04794nam 2200649 450 001 9910798789003321 005 20230808195228.0 010 $a1-4214-2013-9 035 $a(CKB)3710000000848919 035 $a(EBL)4531463 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4531463 035 $a(OCoLC)958220524 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse53206 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4531463 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11270090 035 $a(OCoLC)958448894 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000848919 100 $a20161004h20162016 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aDistraction $eproblems of attention in eighteenth-century literature /$fNatalie M. Phillips 210 1$aBaltimore, Maryland :$cJohns Hopkins University Press,$d2016. 210 4$dİ2016 215 $a1 online resource (303 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-4214-2012-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover; 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 Irony 327 $aEconomies 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 Reader 327 $a3 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 Mind 327 $aScientific 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 Depth 327 $aLydia 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; R 327 $aS 606 $aEnlightenment$zGreat Britain 606 $aPsychology and literature$xHistory$y18th century 606 $aDistraction (Psychology) 606 $aInterest (Psychology) 606 $aCognition in literature 606 $aEnglish literature$y18th century$xHistory and criticism 615 0$aEnlightenment 615 0$aPsychology and literature$xHistory 615 0$aDistraction (Psychology) 615 0$aInterest (Psychology) 615 0$aCognition in literature. 615 0$aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a820.9/353 700 $aPhillips$b Natalie M.$01581075 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910798789003321 996 $aDistraction$93862393 997 $aUNINA