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Reading with the senses in Victorian literature and science
- Title
- Reading with the senses in Victorian literature and science / David Sweeney Coombs.
- Author
- Coombs, David Sweeney, 1977-
- Publication
- Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2019.
- ©2019
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 20-3023 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- xi, 224 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
- 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"--
- Series Statement
- Victorian literature and culture series
- Uniform Title
- Victorian literature and culture series.
- Subjects
- Literature and science
- Criticism
- English literature
- English literature > 19th century > History and criticism
- Literature and science > Great Britain > History > 19th century
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- History
- Perception in literature
- England
- Senses and sensation in literature
- Great Britain
- 1800-1899
- Criticism > England > History > 19th century
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 20-3023
- ISBN
- 9780813943428
- 0813943426
- 9780813943435 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2019015593
- 40029582911
- OCLC
- 1091586170
- Author
- Coombs, David Sweeney, 1977- author.
- Title
- Reading with the senses in Victorian literature and science / David Sweeney Coombs.
- Publisher
- Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2019.
- Copyright Date
- ©2019
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Victorian literature and culture seriesVictorian literature and culture series.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1800-1899
- Other Form:
- Online version: Coombs, David Sweeney, 1977- Reading with the senses in Victorian literature and science Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2019. 9780813943435 (DLC) 2019981430
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40029582911
- Research Call Number
- JFE 20-3023