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



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Autore: Dames Nicholas <1970-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: The physiology of the novel [[electronic resource] ] : reading, neural science, and the form of Victorian fiction / / Nicholas Dames Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2007
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  Visualizza cluster
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.: 9910792227603321
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