Mind and Embodiment in Late Victorian Literature
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Decadence and aestheticism
Embodied cognition
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Late-Victorian Literature
Literature and psychology
Mind-body relationship
Phenomenology
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- ISBN 9781399521277
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 30 Apr 2025
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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The closing decades of the nineteenth century saw the birth of psychology as a discipline. The question of the relationship between mind and body was a central topic of concern across an array of genres, media and textual forms during these years. In this collection we trace the role literature played in responding to fundamental questions within this interdisciplinary intersection. How do writers conceptualize perception, memory, sense-experience, understanding, empathy, cognition, and their relation to embodiment? What is the Victorian contribution to the new conceptions of the nature of thought and feeling developed by such figures as William James in America and Henri Bergson in France? Mind and Embodiment in Late Victorian Literature shows how writers grappled with pivotal intellectual and scientific developments of the nineteenth century and how these ideas transformed Victorian literature itself.
Marion Thain is Professor of Culture and Technology at the University of Edinburgh and Director of Edinburgh Futures Institute. She publishes primarily on the relationship between culture and technology (understood in the broadest terms) and her current projects sit within the interdisciplinary field of attention studies. See marionthain.org for more details. Atti Viragh is Assistant Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at Bilkent University. His work has appeared in such journals as New Literary History, ELH, and English Literature in Transition, 1880-1920. His work sets forth a new account of the birth of phenomenology by tracing its origins to Victorian literature and thought.
