|
Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 19th century
|
Buy Now
The Physiology of the Novel - Reading, Neural Science, and the Form of Victorian Fiction (Hardcover)
Loot Price: R3,752
Discovery Miles 37 520
|
|
|
The Physiology of the Novel - Reading, Neural Science, and the Form of Victorian Fiction (Hardcover)
Expected to ship within 10 - 15 working days
|
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 novel, a range based in a study
of human physiology during the act of reading, He demonstrates 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. His
detailed studies of novel critics who were also interested in
neurological science, combined with readings of novels by
Thackeray, Eliot, Meredith, and Gissing, propose a vision of the
Victorian novel-reader as far from the quietly immersed being we
now imagine - as instead a reader whose nervous system was
addressed, attacked, and soothed by authors newly aware of the
neural operations of their public. Rich in unexpected
intersections, from the British response to Wagnerian opera to the
birth of speed-reading in the late nineteenth century, The
Physiology of the Novel challenges our assumptions about what
novel-reading once did, and still does, to the individual reader,
and provides new answers to the question of how novels influenced a
culture's way of reading, responding, and feeling.
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
|
You might also like..
|
Email address subscribed successfully.
A activation email has been sent to you.
Please click the link in that email to activate your subscription.
Welcome to Loot.co.za!
Sign in / Register |Wishlists & Gift Vouchers |Help | Advanced search
