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

Published Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2019

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Description 1 online resource 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed Subject English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism Literature and science -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century Perception in literature. Senses and sensation in literature. Criticism -- England -- History -- 19th century LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. Criticism English literature Literature and science Perception in literature Senses and sensation in literature England Great Britain Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book LC no. 2019981430 ISBN 9780813943435 0813943434 9780813943428 0813943426

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