Title 4E cognition and eighteenth-century fiction : how the novel found its feet / Karin Kukkonen

Published New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2019] ©2019

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Description 1 online resource (253 pages) : illustrations Series Cognition and poetics Cognition and poetics. 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 Summary "When the novel broke into cultural prominence in the eighteenth century, it became notorious for the gripping, immersive style of its narratives. In this book, Karin Kukkonen explores this phenomenon through the embodied style in 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'' practice of life--writing and fiction-writing. Four female authors who are often written out of the history of the genre are here foregrounded in a critical account that emphasizes the importance of engaging readers' minds and bodies, and which invites us to revisit our understanding of the rise of the modern novel. Kukkonen's innovative theoretical approach is based on the approach of 4E cognition, which views thinking as profoundly embodied and embedded in social and material contexts, extending into technologies and material devices (such as a pen), and enactive in the inherent links between perceiving the world and moving around in it. 4E Cognition and Eighteenth-Century Fiction investigates the eighteenth-century novel through each of these trajectories and shows how language explores its embodied dimension by increasing the descriptions of inner perception, or the bodily gestures around spoken dialogue. The embodied dimension is then related to the media ecologies of letter-writing, book learning, and theatricality. As the novel feeds off and into these social and material contexts, it comes into its own as a lifeworld technology that might not answer to standards of nineteenth-century realism but that feels 'real' because it is integrated into the lifeworld and embodied experiences. 4E cognition answers one of the central challenges to cognitive literary studies: how to integrate historical and cultural contexts into cognitive approaches."-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from web page (Oxford Scholarship Online, viewed on April 24, 2020) Subject 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 LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Alphabets & Writing Systems. PSYCHOLOGY -- Cognitive Psychology. LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. Cognition in literature English fiction English literature -- Women authors Narration (Rhetoric) Perception in literature Psychology and literature Reality in literature Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book LC no. 2018056305 ISBN 9780190913052 0190913053 9780190913069 0190913061 9780190913076 019091307X

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