The Physiology of the Novel: Reading, Neural Science, and by Nicholas Dames
By Nicholas Dames
of novel critics who have been additionally attracted to neurological technological know-how, mixed with readings of novels through Thackeray, Eliot, Meredith, and Gissing, suggest a imaginative and prescient of the Victorian novel-reader as faraway from the quietly immersed being we now think - as in its place a reader whose fearful method was
addressed, attacked, and soothed by way of authors newly conscious of the neural operations in their public. wealthy in unforeseen intersections, from the British reaction to Wagnerian opera to the delivery of speed-reading within the past due 19th century, The body structure of the radical demanding situations our assumptions approximately what novel-reading as soon as did, and nonetheless does, to the person reader, and offers new solutions to the query of ways novels encouraged a culture's manner of analyzing, responding, and feeling.
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