Distributed Cognition in Victorian Culture and Modernism

Reinvigorates our understanding of Victorian and modernist works and society
This book brings together eleven essays by international specialists in Victorian culture and modernism and provides a general and period-specific introduction to distributed cognition and the cognitive humanities.
The essays 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.
Miranda Anderson is an Anniversary Fellow at the University of Stirling and an Honorary Fellow at the University of Edinburgh. Peter Garratt is Associate Professor in English Studies at the University of Durham. Mark Sprevak is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh.

Miranda Anderson is an Anniversary Fellow at the University of Stirling and an Honorary Fellow at the University of Edinburgh. Her research focuses on cognitive approaches to literature and culture. She is the author of The Renaissance Extended Mind (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015). Peter Garratt is Associate Professor of English Studies at Durham University. He is the author of Victorian Empiricism: Self, Knowledge and Reality in Ruskin, Bain, Lewes, Spencer and George Eliot (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2010). He is editor of The Cognitive Humanities: Embodied Mind in Literature and Culture (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016). Mark Sprevak is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh. He is the co-editor of The Routledge Handbook to the Computational Mind (Routledge, 2018), The Turing Guide: Life, Work, Legacy (OUP, 2017) and New Waves in Philosophy of Mind (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014).

List of illustrations Series Preface 1. Series Introduction: Distributed Cognition and the Humanities Miranda Anderson, Michael Wheeler and Mark Sprevak 2. Introduction i. Distributed Cognition in Victorian and Modernism Studies - An Overview Peter Garratt ii. Distributed Cognition in Victorian and Modernism Studies - Our Volume Miranda Anderson 3. The Victorian Extended Mind: George Eliot, Psychology, and the Bounds of Cognition Peter Garratt 4. Instrumental Eyes: Enacted and Interactive Perception in Victorian Optical Technologies and Victorian Fiction Nicole Garrod-Bush 5. Aesthetic Perception and Embodied Cognition: Art and Literature at the Fin de Siècle Marion Thain 6. The Heterocosmic Self: Analogy, Temporality and Structural Couplings in Proust's Swann's Way Marco Bernini 7. Distributed Cognition and the Phenomenology of Modernist Painting and Poetry (Rilke and Cézanne) Jennifer Anna Gosetti-Ferencei 8. Directionality and Duration in Distributed Consciousness: Modernist Perspectives on Photographic Objectivity Adam Lively 9. Walking, Identity and Visual Perception in Romantic and Modernist Literature Andrew Michael Roberts and Eleanore Widger 10. Surrealism, Chance and the Extended Mind Kerry Watson 11. Distributed Cognition, Porous Qualia, and Modernist Narrative Melba Cuddy-Keane 12. Nietzsche's Genealogie der Moral pro and contra distributed cognition E. T. Troscianko 13. A 5th E: Distributed Cognition and the Question of Ethics in Benjamin and Vygotsky, and Horkheimer and Dewey Ben Morgan Notes on contributors Bibliography Index