Reading with the Senses in Victorian Literature and Science /

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"Reading with the Senses shows how major Victorian novelists, aesthetes, and scientists dramatically revised their understanding of reading and sensory perception in light of nineteenth-century scientific work in psychology, physiology, and physics. This book argues that the rise of perception...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Coombs, David Sweeney, 1977- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2019.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Senses and sensation in literature.
Perception in literature.
Literature and science.
English literature.
Criticism.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Critique > Angleterre > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Sens et sensations dans la litterature.
Perception dans la litterature.
Litterature et sciences > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Litterature anglaise > 19e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Criticism > England > History > 19th century.
Literature and science > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
English literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Great Britain.
England.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • 1. Knowing Things by Description in Victorian Science
  • 2. Getting Acquainted with Description in Romola
  • 3. Reading in the Dark: Sensory Obscurity in The Return of the Native
  • 4. Tagging the Vatican Museum with Vernon Lee: Description and the Aesthetic Movement
  • 5. The Sense and Reference of Sound; Or, Walter Pater's Kinky Literalism
  • Epilogue
  • Glossary of Selected Technical Terms.

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