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Jane Austen and Sciences of the Mind (Paperback)
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Jane Austen and Sciences of the Mind (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies in Romanticism
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The essays in this volume interpret Jane Austen's fiction through
the lens of various sciences of the mind and brain, especially the
cluster of disciplines implicated in the term cognitive science,
including neuroscience, evolutionary biology, evolutionary and
developmental psychology, and others. The field of cognitive
literary studies has rapidly developed in the last few decades and
achieved the status of an established (if still evolving) critical
approach. One of the most popular authors to analyze from this
perspective is Jane Austen. As numerous critics have noted, Austen
was a keen observer of how the mind operates in its interactions
with other minds, both when it functions successfully and when, as
often happens, it goes awry, and her perceptions are often in synch
with current neuroscientific and psychological research. Despite
the widespread recognition of the special congruity between
Austen's novels and cognitive science, however, no book has been
devoted to this subject. Jane Austen and Sciences of the Mind is
the first monograph wholly comprised of readings of Austen's oeuvre
(juvenilia as well as all six completed novels) from cognitive and
related psychological approaches. In addition, the volume operates
under the assumption that cognitive and historicist approaches are
compatible, and many essays situate Austen within the climate of
ideas during her era as well as in relation to current research in
the sciences and social sciences. Jane Austen and Sciences of the
Mind offers a new lens for understanding and illuminating the
concerns, techniques, and enduring appeal of Austen's novels.
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