Distributed Cognition in Enlightenment and Romantic Culture

Miranda Anderson is an Anniversary Fellow at the University of Stirling and an Honorary Fellow at the University of Edinburgh. Her research focuses on cognitive approaches to literature and culture. She is the author of The Renaissance Extended Mind (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015). George Rousseau is a Cultural Historian and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He taught at Harvard for many years, was Professor at UCLA, Regius Professor at King’s College Aberdeen and was Co-Director of the Centre for the History of Childhood at Oxford University until 2013. His books centre chronologically in the Enlightenment and usually include medicine, science and sex as primary to their concerns. Michael Wheeler is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Stirling. He is the author of Reconstructing the Cognitive World: The Next Step (MIT, 2005). He is co-editor of Heidegger and Cognitive Science (Palgrave, 2012) and The Mechanical Mind in History (MIT, 2008).

• List of illustrationsSeries Preface1. Series Introduction: Distributed Cognition and the HumanitiesMiranda Anderson, Michael Wheeler and Mark Sprevak2 Introduction I: Distributed Cognition in Enlightenment and Romantic Studies – An OverviewGeorge RousseauIntroduction II: Distributed Cognition in Enlightenment and Romantic Studies – Our VolumeMiranda Anderson3. The Delicate Flux of World and Spirit: Barthold Heinrich Brockes and Distributed Cognition Charlotte Lee4. Wordsworth, Keats, and Cognitive Spaces of Empathy in EndymionRenee Harris5. The Body’s Own Space: Embodied Cognition in Berkeley and Kant Jennifer Mensch6. Is Laurence Sterne’s Protagonist Tristram Shandy Embodied, Enacted or Extended?George Rousseau7. Enacting the Absolute: Subject-Object Relations in Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s Theory of KnowledgeLisa Ann Robertson8. Cognitive Scaffolding, Aids to ReflectionJohn Savarese9. The Self in the History of Distributed Cognition: A View from the History of ReadingElspeth Jajdelska10. ‘Thoroughly to unfold the labyrinths of the human mind’: Distributed Cognition and Women (Novelist)’s Representation of Theatre in Eighteenth-Century England.Ros Ballaster11. The Literary Designer Environments of Eighteenth-Century Jesuit PoeticsKarin Kukkonen12. Blake and the Mark of the Cognitive: Notes Towards the Appearance of the Skeptical SubjectRichard Sha13. Eighteenth-Century Antiquity: Extended, Embodied, EnactedHelen SlaneyNotes on contributorsBibliography

An innovative, thought-provoking approach to eighteenth-century culture. By applying new notions of the human mind as extended across brain, body, and environment, contributors open up refreshing perspectives on the most significant issues in Enlightenment and Romantic Studies.