Ebook: Distributed Cognition in Enlightenment and Romantic Culture

11 essays by international specialists open up the research field of distributed cognition and the cognitive humanities in the Enlightenment and Romantic periods

• The third book in an ambitious four-volume set looking at distributed cognition in the history of thought
• Brings together essays on literature, history, philosophy, art, archaeology, medicine, science and material culture
• Includes a general and a period-specific introduction to distributed cognition and the cognitive humanities
• For students and scholars in Enlightenment and Romantic studies, cognitive humanities and philosophy of mind
• Draws out what was distinctive about Enlightenment and Romantic insights into the cognitive roles of the body and environment
• Examines how humanities topics are affected by new insights from the cognitive sciences

This collection explores how Enlightenment and Romantic practices and ideas reveal the diverse ways that cognition was seen as spread over brain, body and world in the long 18th century.

Contributors

Miranda Anderson, University of Edinburgh and University of Stirling, UK.

Ros Ballaster, Mansfield College, University of Oxford, UK.

Renee Harris, Lewis-Clark State College in Lewiston, Idaho, USA.

Elspeth Jajdelska, University of Strathclyde, UK.

Karin Kukkonen, University of Oslo, Norway.

Charlotte Lee, University of Cambridge, UK.

Jennifer Mensch, Western Sydney University, Australia.

Lisa Ann Robertson, University of South Dakota, USA.

George Rousseau, University of Oxford, UK.

John Savarese, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.

Richard C. Sha, American University, Washington DC, USA.

Helen Slaney, University of Roehampton, UK.

Mark Sprevak, University of Edinburgh, UK.

Michael Wheeler, University of Stirling, UK.