| Description |
1 online resource |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Summary |
"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"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Local Note |
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| Subject |
English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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English literature. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
| Subject |
Literature and science -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
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Literature and science. |
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Great Britain. |
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Perception in literature.
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History. |
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Senses and sensation in literature.
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Perception in literature. |
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Criticism -- England -- History -- 19th century.
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Criticism. |
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England. |
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Senses and sensation in literature. |
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. |
| Chronological Term |
1800-1899 |
| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Coombs, David Sweeney, 1977- Reading with the senses in Victorian literature and science. Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2019 9780813943428 (DLC) 2019015593 |
| ISBN |
9780813943435 (ebook) |
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0813943434 |
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9780813943428 (electronic book) |
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0813943426 (electronic book) |
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