Ebook: Distributed Cognition in Victorian Culture and Modernism

Reinvigorates our understanding of Victorian and modernist works and society

• Offers a wide-ranging application of theories of distributed cognition to Victorian culture and Modernism
• Explores the distinctive nature and expression of notions of distributed cognition in Victorian culture and Modernism and considers their relation to current notions
• Reinvigorates our understanding of Western European works – including Wordsworth, T. S. Eliot and Virginia Woolf – and society by bringing to bear recent insights on the distributed nature of cognition
• Includes essays by international specialists in Victorian culture and Modernist literature, history, technology, science, philosophy and art including Andrew Michael Roberts, Jennifer Gosetti-Ferencei and Melba Cuddy-Keane
• Includes essays on literature, history, technology, science, philosophy and art

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. Together, they 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.

Notes on Contributors

Miranda Anderson, University of Stirling and University of Edinburgh, UK.
Marco Bernini, Durham University, UK.
Melba Cuddy-Keane, University of Toronto, Canada.
Peter Garratt, Durham University.
Adam Lively, University of London, UK.
Ben Morgan, Worcester College and University of Oxford, UK.
Andrew Michael Roberts, Universities of Dundee and St Andrews, UK.
Mark Sprevak, University of Edinburgh, UK.
Marion Thain, King’s College London.
Emily Troscianko, University of Oxford, UK.
Kerry Watson, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, UK.
Michael Wheeler, University of Stirling, UK.
Eleanore Widger, Scottish Poetry Library, UK.