Mind and embodiment in late Victorian literature / edited by Marion Thain and Atti Viragh.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Thain, Marion, editor.

Viragh, Atti, editor.

Series:

Nineteenth-century and neo-Victorian cultures.

Nineteenth-Century and Neo-Victorian Cultures

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cognition in literature.

English literature--19th century--History and criticism.

English literature.

Genre:

Literary criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 190 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press Ltd, [2025]

Summary:

Shows how late-Victorian writers develop new understandings of the relationship between cognition and embodiment.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Series Preface

Notes on Contributors

Introduction: Mind, Body, Literature and Psychology in the Later Nineteenth Century

1 Cognitive Eating: George Gissing and the Victorian Brainworker

2 Fitzpiers the Empiricist: Illness and Desire in The Woodlanders

3 Alice Meynell’s Brain Waves

4 Walter Pater’s Embodied Knowledge: In and Out of Psychophysiology

5 Conversion-Crisis as a Marginal Experience in William James and Walter Pater

6 Self-Taste, Embodiment, and Language in Gerard Manley Hopkins

7 Neuron Doctrine in Fiction by Marie Corelli and Oscar Wilde

8 Vernon Lee: Empathy, Mnemic Engrams, and Satanic Aesthetics

Index

Notes:

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Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781399521291

1399521292

9781399521307

1399521306

OCLC:

1496393723