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

by Nicholas Dames

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"