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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: outward mind
    sub title: materialist aesthetics in Victorian science and literature
  name:
    name part: Morgan, Benjamin
    name part: 1979-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ilu
    date issued: 2017
    copyright date: 2017
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 373 pages ; 24 cm.
  abstract: Though underexplored in contemporary scholarship, the Victorian attempts to turn aesthetics into a science remains one of the more fascinating aspects of that era. As mind and emotion were increasingly understood in terms of biology, aesthetic experience began to be thought of less as abstract judgment and more as an interaction between the nervous system and the materiality of art. Benjamin Morgan approaches this period of innovation as an important origin point for current attempts to understand art or beauty using the tools of the sciences. Moving chronologically from natural theology in the early nineteenth century to laboratory psychology in the early twentieth, Morgan draws on little-known archives of Victorian intellectuals such as William Morris, Walter Pater, John Ruskin, and others, to argue that scientific studies of mind and emotion transformed the way that nineteenth-century writers and artists understood the experience of beauty and effectively redescribed aesthetic judgment as a biological adaptation. Looking beyond the Victorian period to humanistic critical theory today, he also shows how the historical relationship between science and aesthetics could be a vital resource for rethinking aspects of contemporary literary and cultural criticism such as materialism, empathy, practice, and form. At a moment when the tumultuous relationship between the sciences and the humanities is the subject of ongoing debate, Morgan argues for the importance of understanding the arts and sciences as being incontrovertibly intertwined.
  table of contents: Introduction: materialist aesthetics -- Toward a science of beauty -- Form: harmony and attunement in empirical aesthetics -- Response: the scale of affect in physiological aesthetics -- The outward turn -- Materiality: Walter Pater and late-Victorian materialisms -- Practice: William Morris's socialist physiology -- Empathy: counting words with Vernon Lee and I.A. Richards -- Epilogue: Wildean neuroaesthetics.
  note: Benjamin Morgan.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: e-uk-en
  subject:
    topic: Aesthetics
    topic: Psychological aspects
  subject:
    topic: Arts
    topic: Psychological aspects
  subject:
    topic: Aesthetics, British
    temporal: 19th century
  subject:
    topic: Authors, English
    temporal: 19th century
    topic: Aesthetics
  subject:
    topic: Materialism
    geographic: England
    topic: History
    temporal: 19th century
  subject:
    topic: Neuroanthropology
  classification: BH301.P78 M67 2017
  classification: 111/.8509034
  identifier: 9780226442112
  identifier: 022644211X
  identifier: 9780226462202
  identifier: 022646220X
  identifier: 9780226457468
  identifier: 2016033179
  record info:
    record content source: ICU/DLC
    record creation date: 160721
    record change date: 20170926115449.0
    record identifier: in00003850858