Distributed Cognition in Victorian Culture and Modernism

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). Peter Garratt is Associate Professor of English Studies at Durham University. He is the author of Victorian Empiricism: Self, Knowledge and Reality in Ruskin, Bain, Lewes, Spencer and George Eliot (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2010). He is editor of The Cognitive Humanities: Embodied Mind in Literature and Culture (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016). Mark Sprevak is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh. He is the co-editor of The Routledge Handbook to the Computational Mind (Routledge, 2018), The Turing Guide: Life, Work, Legacy (OUP, 2017) and New Waves in Philosophy of Mind (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014).

• List of illustrationsSeries Preface1. Series Introduction: Distributed Cognition and the HumanitiesMiranda Anderson, Michael Wheeler and Mark Sprevak2. Introductioni. Distributed Cognition in Victorian and Modernism Studies – An OverviewPeter Garrattii. Distributed Cognition in Victorian and Modernism Studies – Our VolumeMiranda Anderson3. The Victorian Extended Mind: George Eliot, Psychology, and the Bounds of CognitionPeter Garratt4. Instrumental Eyes: Enacted and Interactive Perception in Victorian Optical Technologies and Victorian FictionNicole Garrod-Bush5. Aesthetic Perception and Embodied Cognition: Art and Literature at the Fin de SiècleMarion Thain6. The Heterocosmic Self: Analogy, Temporality and Structural Couplings in Proust’s Swann’s WayMarco Bernini7. Distributed Cognition and the Phenomenology of Modernist Painting and Poetry (Rilke and Cézanne)Jennifer Anna Gosetti-Ferencei8. Directionality and Duration in Distributed Consciousness: Modernist Perspectives on Photographic ObjectivityAdam Lively9. Walking, Identity and Visual Perception in Romantic and Modernist LiteratureAndrew Michael Roberts and Eleanore Widger10. Surrealism, Chance and the Extended MindKerry Watson11. Distributed Cognition, Porous Qualia, and Modernist NarrativeMelba Cuddy-Keane12. Nietzsche’s Genealogie der Moral pro and contra distributed cognitionE. T. Troscianko13. A 5th E: Distributed Cognition and the Question of Ethics in Benjamin and Vygotsky, and Horkheimer and DeweyBen MorganNotes on contributorsBibliographyIndex

A period of inward and outward expansion, of conflict and suspicion, of innovation and alienation, a time that underscored the continuities of life, mind, and society. As this exciting collection shows, we find in Victorian and modernist culture not just a prefiguration, but the very roots of distributed cognition.