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The Physiology of the Novel: Reading, Neural Science, and the Form of Victorian Fiction Dames, Nicholas (Theodore Kahan Professor in the Humanities, Columbia University)
The Physiology of the Novel: Reading, Neural Science, and the Form of Victorian Fiction
Dames, Nicholas (Theodore Kahan Professor in the Humanities, Columbia University)
How did the Victorians read novels? Nicholas Dames answers that deceptively simple question by revealing a now-forgotten range of 19th-century theories of the novel, based in a study of human physiology during the act of reading. He shows us 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.
288 pages, 14 line drawings, 2 tables
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | September 27, 2007 |
| ISBN13 | 9780199208968 |
| Publishers | Oxford University Press |
| Pages | 288 |
| Dimensions | 241 × 166 × 21 mm · 600 g |
| Language | English |