The Physiology of the Novel —— Reading, Neural Science, and the Form of Victorian Fiction

----- 小说生理学：阅读、神经科学与维多利亚小说的形成

ISBN: 9780199208968 出版年：2011 页码：288 Dames, Nicholas Oxford University Press

How did the Victorians read novels? Nicholas Dames answers that deceptively simple question by revealing a now-forgotten range of 19th-century theories of the novel, based in a study of human physiology during the act of reading. He shows us the ways in which the Victorians thought they read, and uncovers surprising responses to the question of what might have transpired in the minds and bodies of readers of Victorian fiction.