The Physiology of the Novel: Reading, Neural Science, and the Form of Victorian Fiction
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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...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0199208964
ISBN13:9780199208968
Release Date:November 2007
Publisher:Oxford University Press, USA
Length:288 Pages
Weight:1.26 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 6.5" x 9.5"
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