The Physiology of the Novel
Subtitle: Reading, Neural Science, and the Form of Victorian Fiction
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA; Oxford University Press
Published: November 5, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780199208968
Subjects: Novels, other prose & writers: 19th century; Fiction; Fiction - General; English; Literary; Fiction / Literary; 19th century; Books and reading; English literature; Great Britain; History; History and criticism; Theory, etc
Description: How did the Victorians read novels? The author 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.