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| Genre/Form: | Criticism, interpretation, etc History |
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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Kukkonen, Karin, 1980- editor. Cognition and poetics New York : Oxford University Press, 2019 (DLC) 2018056305 |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Karin Kukkonen |
| ISBN: | 9780190913045 0190913045 |
| OCLC Number: | 1091271472 |
| Description: | vi, 253 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction: how the novel found its feet -- The curse of realism -- Haywood: shaping a fictional language of embodiment -- Lennox: repertoires of embodiment -- Fielding: a lifeworld of books -- Burney: writing life and fiction -- The novel as a lifeworld technology. |
| Series Title: | Cognition and poetics. |
| Other Titles: | 4E cognition and 18th-century poetics |
| Responsibility: | Karin Kukkonen (University of Oslo). |
Abstract:
"When the novel broke into cultural prominence in the eighteenth century, it was notorious for the gripping, immersive style of its narratives and this remains a signal feature of the genre until our days. My book shows how this embodied style developed in eighteenth-century writing through Eliza Haywood's flamboyant amatory fiction, Charlotte Lennox's work as a cultural broker between Britain and France, Sarah Fielding's experimental novels and Frances Burney's crossings between life-writing and fiction-writing. Four female authors that are often written out of the history of the genre are brought forward in a critical account that underlines the importance of engaging readers' mind and bodies and that invites us to revisit standard narratives of the rise of the novel"--
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Professor Kukkonen is, instead, one of a handful of emerging scholars who are attempting to take the insights of literary scholars and historians as seriously as insights emerging from the social and hard sciences; this book is one sign of that project, and clearly demonstrates some of the potentials of tools drawn from a modern cognitivist narratology. * Sean Silver, Review of English Studies * This study will be of particular interest to scholars working in the history of the novel and the history of emotions. The engagement with extended mind theorists will also be helpful for scholars interested in theorizing how the novel relates to other technologies that were emerging in the eighteenth century. Kukkonen's skilful interweaving of the participatory nature of eighteenth-century fiction, the theoretical tools of embodied cognition, and the particularitiesof the "eighteenth-century media ecology" demonstrates some of the ways in which scholars can use concepts from 4E cognition to produce insightful readings of eighteenth-century engagements with the body, with formal experimentation, and with the materiality of literary texts. * Collin Cook, Woosong University, Eighteenth-Century Fiction * Read more...
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- English fiction -- 18th century -- History and criticism.
- Psychology and literature -- History -- 18th century.
- Cognition in literature.
- Perception in literature.
- Reality in literature.
- Narration (Rhetoric) -- History -- 18th century.
- English literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
- English fiction.
- English literature -- Women authors.
- Narration (Rhetoric)
- Psychology and literature.
