Distributed Cognition in Victorian Culture and Modernism / / Miranda Anderson, Peter Garratt, Mark Sprevak.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
• VerfasserIn: Anderson, Miranda,; Garratt, Peter,; Sprevak, Mark,
• MitwirkendeR: Anderson, Miranda,; Bernini, Marco,; Cuddy-Keane, Melba,; Garratt, Peter,; Garrod-Bush, Nicole,; Gosetti-Ferencei, Jennifer Anna,; Lively, Adam,; Morgan, Ben,; Roberts, Andrew Michael,; Sprevak, Mark,; Thain, Marion,; Troscianko, E. T.,; Watson, Kerry,; Wheeler, Michael,; Widger, Eleanore,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: The Edinburgh History of Distributed Cognition : EHDC
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (304 p.) :; 21 colour illustrations

Reinvigorates our understanding of Victorian and modernist works and societyOffers a wide-ranging application of theories of distributed cognition to Victorian culture and ModernismExplores the distinctive nature and expression of notions of distributed cognition in Victorian culture and Modernism and considers their relation to current notionsReinvigorates our understanding of Western European works – including Wordsworth, T. S. Eliot and Virginia Woolf – and society by bringing to bear recent insights on the distributed nature of cognitionIncludes essays by international specialists in Victorian culture and Modernist literature, history, technology, science, philosophy and art including Andrew Michael Roberts, Jennifer Gosetti-Ferencei and Melba Cuddy-KeaneIncludes essays on literature, history, technology, science, philosophy and artThis book brings together 11 essays by international specialists in Victorian culture and modernism and provides a general and period-specific introduction to distributed cognition and the cognitive humanities. Together, they revitalise our reading of Victorian and modernist works in the fields of history of technology, science and medicine, material culture, philosophy, art and literary studies by bringing to bear recent insights in cognitive science and philosophy of mind on the ways in which cognition is distributed across brain, body and world.Notes on ContributorsMiranda Anderson, University of Stirling and University of Edinburgh, UK.Marco Bernini, Durham University, UK.Melba Cuddy-Keane, University of Toronto, Canada. Peter Garratt, Durham University. Adam Lively, University of London, UK.Ben Morgan, Worcester College and University of Oxford, UK. Andrew Michael Roberts, Universities of Dundee and St Andrews, UK. Mark Sprevak, University of Edinburgh, UK.Marion Thain, King’s College London.Emily Troscianko, University of Oxford, UK.Kerry Watson, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, UK.Michael Wheeler, University of Stirling, UK. Eleanore Widger, Scottish Poetry Library, UK.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Series Preface -- 1 Distributed Cognition and the Humanities -- 2 Introduction -- 3 The Victorian Extended Mind: George Eliot, Psychology and the Bounds of Cognition -- 4 Instrumental Eyes: Enacted and Interactive Perception in Victorian Optical Technologies and Victorian Fiction -- 5 Aesthetic Perception and Embodied Cognition: Art and Literature at the Fin de Siècle -- 6 The Heterocosmic Self: Analogy, Temporality and Structural Couplings in Proust’s Swann’s Way -- 7 Distributed Cognition and the Phenomenology of Modernist Painting and Poetry (Rilke and Cézanne) -- 8 Directionality and Duration in Distributed Consciousness: Modernist Perspectives on Photographic Objectivity -- 9 Walking, Identity and Visual Perception in Romantic and Modernist Literature -- 10 Surrealism, Chance and the Extended Mind -- 11 Distributed Cognition, Porous Qualia and Modernist Narrative -- 12 Nietzsche’s Genealogie der Moral Pro and Contra Distributed Cognition -- 13 A 5th E: Distributed Cognition and the Question of Ethics in Benjamin and Vygotsky, and Horkheimer and Dewey -- Notes on Contributors -- Bibliography -- Index