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020			_a9780199208968
028			_a: Zafaa Books & Distributor _b: 313/56F, 49A, Anand Nagar, Inderlok, Delhi _c: ZBD0365 _d: 06/02/2024
082			_a820.9008 DAM
100			_aDames, Nicholas.
245			_aThe Physiology of the Novel. _c/ Nicholas Dames.
260			_a, United Kingdon _b: Oxford University Press _c, 2012.
300			_ax,277p. _c: 24cm.
365			_b7399
520			_aHow 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 detailed studies of novel critics who were also interested in neurological science, combined with readings of novels by Thackeray, Eliot, Meredith, and Gissing, propose a vision of the Victorian novel-reader as far from the quietly immersed being we now imagine - as instead a reader whose nervous system was addressed, attacked, and soothed by authors newly aware of the neural operations of their public. Rich in unexpected intersections, from the British response to Wagnerian opera to the birth of speed-reading in the late nineteenth century, The Physiology of the Novel challenges our assumptions about what novel-reading once did, and still does, to the individual reader, and provides new answers to the question of how novels influenced a culture's way of reading, responding, and feeling.
650			_aPhysiology
650			_aNeural Science
650			_aFiction
700			_aNicholas Dames
942			_cBOOK
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