The physiology of the novel

Name: The physiology of the novel
Author: Nicholas Dames

by Nicholas Dames

Historical FictionFantasy

2007

How did the Victorians read novels? The author 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.

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