Mind and Embodiment in Late Victorian Literature
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Edited by:
Marion Thain
About this book
Shows how late-Victorian writers develop new understandings of the relationship between cognition and embodiment
- Addresses an interdisciplinary audience interested in literary studies, philosophy of mind, the history of ideas, cognitive psychology, and neurology
- Recovers the participation of British literature in the birth and development of psychology
- Corrects the disciplinary bifurcation between Victorian and modernist discourses about the mind
- Explores problems of aesthetics, narrative, poetics, plastic arts, neurology, physiology, and food metaphors, as well as the legacies of empiricism
The closing decades of the nineteenth century saw the birth of psychology as a discipline. The question of the relationship between mind and body was a central topic of concern across an array of genres, media and textual forms during these years. In this collection we trace the role literature played in responding to fundamental questions within this interdisciplinary intersection. How do writers conceptualize perception, memory, sense-experience, understanding, empathy, cognition, and their relation to embodiment? What is the Victorian contribution to the new conceptions of the nature of thought and feeling developed by such figures as William James in America and Henri Bergson in France? Mind and Embodiment in Late Victorian Literature shows how writers grappled with pivotal intellectual and scientific developments of the nineteenth century—and how these ideas transformed Victorian literature itself.
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Series Preface
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Notes on Contributors
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Introduction: Mind, Body, Literature and Psychology in the Later Nineteenth Century
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1 Cognitive Eating: George Gissing and the Victorian Brainworker
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2 Fitzpiers the Empiricist: Illness and Desire in The Woodlanders
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3 Alice Meynell’s Brain Waves
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4 Walter Pater’s Embodied Knowledge: In and Out of Psychophysiology
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5 Conversion-Crisis as a Marginal Experience in William James and Walter Pater
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6 Self-Taste, Embodiment, and Language in Gerard Manley Hopkins
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7 Neuron Doctrine in Fiction by Marie Corelli and Oscar Wilde
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8 Vernon Lee: Empathy, Mnemic Engrams, and Satanic Aesthetics
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Index
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