The physiology of the novel : reading, neural science, and the form of Victorian fiction / / Nicholas Dames

• Autore: Dames Nicholas <1970->
• Pubblicazione: Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2007
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (771 p.)
• Disciplina: 820.9008
• Soggetto topico: English literature - 19th century - History and criticism - Theory, etc; English literature - 19th century - History and criticism; Books and reading - Great Britain - History - 19th century; Reader-response criticism - Great Britain; Literature and society - Great Britain - History - 19th century
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [256]-272) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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; Index ; Foot notes introduction_fn1; introduction_fn2; introduction
• Sommario/riassunto: How 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
• Titolo autorizzato: The physiology of the novel
• ISBN: 0-19-160727-4; 0-19-152611-8; 1-281-16061-X; 1-4356-0983-2; 9786611160616
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910819926503321
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