Beth Lau, ed. Jane Austen and Sciences of the Mind (Routledge 2018).
Jane Austen and Sciences of the Mind is a collection of essays devoted to readings of Austen’s oeuvre (juvenilia as well as all six completed novels) from cognitive and related psychological approaches. Austen was a keen observer of how the mind operates in its interactions with other minds, both when it functions successfully and when, as often happens, it goes awry, and her perceptions are often in synch with current neuroscientific and psychological research. A number of critics have noted the special congruity between Austen’s novels and cognitive science, but no book has previously been devoted to this subject. Essays in this volume explore the treatment in Austen’s novels of issues such as Theory of Mind or mindreading and its opposite, mindblindness; social cognition; the neurobiology of love; the operation of memory; the importance of play in human (and all mammal) development; and resilience or neuroplasticity. Jane Austen and Sciences of the Mind offers a new lens for understanding and illuminating the concerns, techniques, and enduring appeal of Austen’s fiction. Contributors to the volume are Alan Richardson, Patrick Colm Hogan, Kay Young, Wendy S. Jones, Natalie M. Phillips, William Nelles, Kate Singer, Matt Lorenz, Bethany Wong, and Beth Lau.
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