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Title Distributed cognition in Enlightenment and Romantic culture / edited by Miranda Anderson, George Rousseau and Michael Wheeler
Published Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2019]
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Description 1 online resource (xi, 277 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color)
Series The Edinburgh history of distributed cognition
Edinburgh history of distributed cognition.
Contents 1. Distributed cognition and the humanities / Miranda Anderson, Michael Wheeler, Mark Sprevak -- 2. Introduction. I. Distributed cognition in Enlightenment and Romantic studies : an overview / George Rousseau -- II. Distributed cognition in Enlightenment and Romantic studies : our volume / Miranda Anderson -- 3. Barthold Heinrich Brockes and distributed cognition : the delicate flux of world and spirit / Charlotte Lee -- 4. Wordsworth, Keats and cognitive spaces of empathy in Endymion / Renee Harris -- 5. Embodied cognition in Berkeley and Kant : the body's own space / Jennifer Mensch -- 6. Is Laurence Sterne's protagonist Tristram Shandy embodied, enacted or extended? / George Rousseau -- 7. Enacting the absolute : subject-object relations in Samuel Taylor Coleridge's theory of knowledge / Lisa Ann Robertson -- 8. Cognitive scaffolding, Aids to Reflection / John Savarese -- 9. The self in the history of distributed cognition : a view from the history of reading / Elspeth Jajdelska -- 10. Distributed cognition and women writers' representation of theatre in eighteenth-century England : "Thoroughly to unfold the labyrinths of the human mind" / Ros Ballaster -- 11. The literary designer environments of eighteenth-century Jesuit poetics / Karin Kukkonen -- 12. Blake and the mark of the cognitive : notes towards the appearance of the sceptical subject / Richard C. Sha -- 13. Eighteenth-century antiquity : extended, embodied, enacted / Helen Slaney
Summary Revitalising our reading of 18th century works specifically in the fields of the history of the book, literary studies, material culture, art history, philosophy, technology, science and medicine, this volume brings recent insights in cognitive science and philosophy of mind to bear on the distributed nature of cognition
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force. WlAbNL
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Subject Distributed cognition -- History -- 18th century
Enlightenment.
Romanticism.
Cognition and culture -- History -- 18th century
romanticism (form of expression)
Enlightenment (18th-century western movement)
HISTORY -- Modern -- 18th Century.
Cognition and culture
Distributed cognition
Enlightenment
Romanticism
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Anderson, Miranda, editor.
Rousseau, G. S. (George Sebastian), editor.
Wheeler, Michael, 1960- editor.
ISBN 9781474442305
1474442307
9781474442312
1474442315