Reading with the senses in Victorian literature and science / David Sweeney Coombs.

• Introduction -- Knowing things by description in Victorian science -- Getting acquainted with description in Romola -- Reading in the dark: sensory obscurity in The Return of the Native -- Tagging the Vatican Museum with Vernon Lee: description and the aesthetic movement -- Sense and Reference of sound; Or, Walter Pater's Kinky literalism.

• "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 science led major Victorian writers--George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, Vernon Lee, and Walter Pater--to embrace a radical literary empiricism that had transformative effects on the novel and the Aesthetic Movement. Coombs shows how the effects of this radical literary empiricism continue to reverberate in our own moment, when a descriptive turn in the humanities has pushed literary critics to align their reading practices with scientific methods of observation"-- 

Ämnesord

Litteratur och vetenskap  (sao)

Sinnen och förnimmelser i litteraturen  (sao)

Engelsk litteratur  -- historia (sao)

Perception in literature.  (LCSH)

Senses and sensation in literature.  (LCSH)

English literature  -- 19th century -- History and criticism. (LCSH)

Literature and science  -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century. (LCSH)

Criticism  -- England -- History -- 19th century. (LCSH)

Criticism.  (fast)

English literature.  (fast)

Literature and science.  (fast)

Perception in literature.  (fast)

Senses and sensation in literature.  (fast)

Wissenschaft  (gnd)

Literatur  (gnd)

Kultur  (gnd)

Englisch  (gnd)

Wahrnehmung  (gnd)

Empfindung  (gnd)

Senses and sensation in literature  (lcsh)

Literature and science  (lcsh)

England.  (fast)

Great Britain.  (fast)

Großbritannien  (gnd)

1800-talet  (sao)

1800-1899  (fast)

Genre

Analys och tolkning  (saogf)

Criticism, interpretation, etc.  (fast)

History.  (fast)

Klassifikation

PR468.S34 (LCC)

820.00/80936 (DDC)