Distributed cognition in Victorian culture and modernism / edited by Miranda Anderson, Peter Garratt and Mark Sprevak.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Distributed Cognition in Victorian Culture and Modernism -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Series Preface -- Plates -- 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

This 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.

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