Distributed Cognition in Victorian Culture and Modernism

Reinvigorates our understanding of Victorian and modernist works and societyThis book brings together eleven essays by international specialists in Victorian culture and modernism and provides a general and period-specific introduction to distributed cognition and the cognitive humanities.The essays 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.Miranda Anderson is an Anniversary Fellow at the University of Stirling and an Honorary Fellow at the University of Edinburgh. Peter Garratt is Associate Professor in English Studies at the University of Durham. Mark Sprevak is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh.