Jane Austen and Sciences of the Mind

ISBN-13: 9780367667474 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 238 str.

Beth Lau

Opis

The essays in this volume interpret Jane Austen’s fiction through the lens of various sciences of the mind and brain, especially the cluster of disciplines implicated in the term cognitive science, including neuroscience, evolutionary biology, evolutionary and developmental psychology, and others.

Spis treści

Introduction

Beth Lau

1. Austen’s Juvenilia and Sciences of the Mind

William Nelles

2. Catherine’s Education in Mindreading in Northanger Abbey

Beth Lau

3. Jane Austen and the Perils of Mental Time Travel

Alan Richardson

4. The Map of Love in Mansfield Park

Wendy S. Jones

5. Austen Agitated: Feeling Emotions in Mixed Media

Kate Singer

6. Pride and Prejudice and Social Identity Theory

Matt Lorenz

7. ’My Fanny’: The Price of Play

Bethany Wong

8. Patterns of Attention and Memory in Jane Austen: Literary Neuroscience, History of Mind, and the Importance of Individual Difference

Natalie M. Phillips et al

9. Persuasion: Lessons in Socio-Cognitive Understanding

Patrick Colm Hogan

10. On Resilience and Jane Austen

Kay Young

O autorze

Beth Lau is Professor of English Emerita at California State University, Long Beach, USA. She is the author of Keats’s Reading of the Romantic Poets (1991) and Keats’s Paradise Lost (1998), as well as numerous articles on various Romantic writers. She also edited Fellow Romantics: Male and Female British Writers, 1790-1835 (2009), the New Riverside edition of Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility (2002), and co-edited (with Diane Hoeveler) Approaches to Teaching Bronte’s Jane Eyre (1993).