Research Catalog

Title

4E cognition and eighteenth-century fiction : how the novel found its feet / Karin Kukkonen (University of Oslo).

Author

Kukkonen, Karin, 1980-

Publication

• New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2019]
• ©2019

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Details

Description

vi, 253 pages : illustrations; 25 cm.

Summary

• " When the novel broke into cultural prominence in the eighteenth century, it became notorious for the gripping, immersive style of its narratives. In this book, Karin Kukkonen explores this phenomenon through the embodied style in Eliza Haywood's flamboyant amatory fiction, Charlotte Lennox's work as a cultural broker between Britain and France, Sarah Fielding's experimental novels, and Frances Burney'' practice of life--writing and fiction-writing. Four female authors who are often written out of the history of the genre are here foregrounded in a critical account that emphasizes the importance of engaging readers' minds and bodies, and which invites us to revisit our understanding of the rise of the modern novel. Kukkonen's innovative theoretical approach is based on the approach of 4E cognition, which views thinking as profoundly embodied and embedded in social and material contexts, extending into technologies and material devices (such as a pen), and enactive in the inherent links between perceiving the world and moving around in it. 4E Cognition and Eighteenth-Century Fiction investigates the eighteenth-century novel through each of these trajectories and shows how language explores its embodied dimension by increasing the descriptions of inner perception, or the bodily gestures around spoken dialogue. The embodied dimension is then related to the media ecologies of letter-writing, book learning, and theatricality. As the novel feeds off and into these social and material contexts, it comes into its own as a lifeworld technology that might not answer to standards of nineteenth-century realism but that feels 'real' because it is integrated into the lifeworld and embodied experiences. 4E cognition answers one of the central challenges to cognitive literary studies: how to integrate historical and cultural contexts into cognitive approaches. "--
• "When the novel broke into cultural prominence in the eighteenth century, it was notorious for the gripping, immersive style of its narratives and this remains a signal feature of the genre until our days. My book shows how this embodied style developed in eighteenth-century writing through Eliza Haywood's flamboyant amatory fiction, Charlotte Lennox's work as a cultural broker between Britain and France, Sarah Fielding's experimental novels and Frances Burney's crossings between life-writing and fiction-writing. Four female authors that are often written out of the history of the genre are brought forward in a critical account that underlines the importance of engaging readers' mind and bodies and that invites us to revisit standard narratives of the rise of the novel"--

Series Statement

Cognition and poetics

Uniform Title

Cognition and poetics.

Alternative Title

• 4E cognition and 18th-century poetics
• How the novel found its feet

Subject

• 1700-1799
• English fiction > 18th century > History and criticism
• Psychology and literature > History > 18th century
• Cognition in literature
• Perception in literature
• Reality in literature
• Narration (Rhetoric) > History > 18th century
• English literature > Women authors > History and criticism
• English fiction
• English literature > Women authors
• Narration (Rhetoric)
• Psychology and literature
• LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Alphabets & Writing Systems
• PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology

Genre/Form

• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-247) and index.

Contents

Introduction: how the novel found its feet -- The curse of realism -- Haywood: shaping a fictional language of embodiment -- Lennox: repertoires of embodiment -- Fielding: a lifeworld of books -- Burney: writing life and fiction -- The novel as a lifeworld technology.

Call Number

JFE 19-4521

ISBN

• 9780190913045
• 0190913045

LCCN

2018026325

OCLC

1048941664

Author

Kukkonen, Karin, 1980- editor.

Title

4E cognition and eighteenth-century fiction : how the novel found its feet / Karin Kukkonen (University of Oslo).

Publisher

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2019]

Copyright Date

©2019

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Cognition and poetics

Cognition and poetics.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-247) and index.

Chronological Term

1700-1799

Research Call Number

JFE 19-4521