The Physiology of the Novel: Reading, Neural Science, and the Form of Victorian Fiction by Nicholas Dames

The Physiology of the Novel: Reading, Neural Science, and the Form of Victorian Fiction

Nicholas Dames

277 pages 2007

2 editions

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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 ...

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