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Initially received with muted applause, Darwin's The Origin of
Species by Means of Natural Selection was soon recognized as the
breakthrough scientific advance that explained the evidence of the
world around us, the place and history of humans, the connections
between environment and evolution. Still regarded by some as
radical, Darwin's contribution to world knowledge is immeasurable.
This new, popular edition has been edited and abridged for the
modern reader, to introduce Darwin's research in a digestible form.
The FLAME TREE Foundations series features core publications which
together have shaped the cultural landscape of the modern world,
with cutting-edge research distilled into pocket guides designed to
be both accessible and informative.
An era marked by sweeping change, the age of Queen Victoria was a
time of rapid modernization as well as social and political
upheaval, which is reflected in its literature. Bridging the gap
between the Romantic and Modern traditions, Victorian writers held
a mirror to society, chronicling the tensions between the
prosperity enjoyed by a few, and the poverty and suffering endured
by so many. Filled with captivating stories by the most iconic
writers of the era (including Oscar Wilde, Charles Dickens, Henry
James, and Elizabeth Gaskell) this collection is a fitting
companion to the other titles in our bestselling Gothic Fantasy
series.
This book identifies the 'cognitive humanities' with new approaches
to literature and culture that engage with recent theories of the
embodied mind in cognitive science. If cognition should be
approached less as a matter of internal representation-a Cartesian
inner theatre-than as a form of embodied action, how might cultural
representation be rethought? What can literature and culture reveal
or challenge about embodied minds? The essays in this book ask what
new directions in the humanities open up when the thinking self is
understood as a participant in contexts of action, even as extended
beyond the skin. Building on cognitive literary studies, but
engaging much more extensively with '4E' cognitive science
(embodied, embedded, enactive, extended) than previously, the book
uses case studies from many different historical settings (such as
early modern theatre and digital technologies) and in different
media (narrative, art, performance) to explore the embodied mind
through culture.
This open access book presents five different approaches to reading
breath in literature, in response to texts from a range of
historical, geographical and cultural environments. Breath, for all
its ubiquity in literary texts, has received little attention as a
transhistorical literary device. Drawing together scholars of
Medieval Romance, Early Modern Drama, Fin de Siecle Aesthetics,
American Poetics and the Postcolonial Novel, this book offers the
first transhistorical study of breath in literature. At the same
time, it shows how the study of breath in literature can contribute
to recent developments in the Medical Humanities.
This book identifies the 'cognitive humanities' with new approaches
to literature and culture that engage with recent theories of the
embodied mind in cognitive science. If cognition should be
approached less as a matter of internal representation-a Cartesian
inner theatre-than as a form of embodied action, how might cultural
representation be rethought? What can literature and culture reveal
or challenge about embodied minds? The essays in this book ask what
new directions in the humanities open up when the thinking self is
understood as a participant in contexts of action, even as extended
beyond the skin. Building on cognitive literary studies, but
engaging much more extensively with '4E' cognitive science
(embodied, embedded, enactive, extended) than previously, the book
uses case studies from many different historical settings (such as
early modern theatre and digital technologies) and in different
media (narrative, art, performance) to explore the embodied mind
through culture.
This book brings together 11 essays by international specialists in
Victorian culture and modernism and provides a general and
period-specific introduction to distributed cognition and the
cognitive humanities. The essays revitalise our reading of
Victorian and modernist works in the fields of history of
technology, science and medicine, material culture, philosophy, art
and literary studies by bringing to bear recent insights in
cognitive science and philosophy of mind on the ways in which
cognition is distributed across brain, body and world.
Empiricism, one of Raymond William's keywords, circulates in much
contemporary thought and criticism solely as a term of censure, a
synonym for spurious objectivity or positivism. Yet rarely, if
ever, has it had this philosophical implication. Dr Johnson, it
should be recalled, kicked the stone precisely to expose
empiricism's baroque falsifications of common sense. In an effort
to restore historical depth to the term, this book examines
epistemology in the narrative prose of five writers, John Ruskin,
Alexander Bain, G. H. Lewes, Herbert Spencer, and George Eliot,
developing the view that the flourishing of nineteenth-century
scientific culture occurred at a time when empiricism itself was
critically dismantling any such naive representationalism. Dr.
Garratt argues that by the 1860s empiricism was both a dominant
cultural language and a reflexive epistemic theory, producing a
model of contingent self hood conceived simultaneously as the route
towards knowledge and its obstacle. For this reason, Victorian
empiricism predicated its search for knowledge on a profound
instability, one embodied within the textual language through which
it sought its articulation.By examining familiar works, such as
Ruskin's Modern Painters and George Eliot's fiction, alongside the
voluminous psychological and philosophical prose of Bain, Lewes,
and Spencer, he illustrates, using detailed examples, how the
imperatives of empiricist thought shaped the aesthetic of realism,
as well as nineteenth-century views towards perception, human
embodiment, and relativism. In all cases, their works give shape to
empiricism's skeptical impulse. In Ruskin, for example, the
narrative journey into knowledge is one of haphazard progress and
fraught autobiographical engagement; in Bain's psychology it forms
a story of precarious accumulation; in Lewes and Spencer, sprawling
form expresses the proliferating potential of knowledge itself.
This collection brings together verses that mark the last moments
of life, the passing of one stage to another. At a time of grief,
we often search for the right words to say, words which will help
us come to terms with death, with loss and with the fear of what
comes next. The poems and readings in this collection gather
together beautiful, lyrical, insightful writings on death, grieving
and healing by poets including Christina Rossetti, John Donne,
Emily Dickinson and John Keats. A source of comfort, solace and
fortitude.
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