Download or read book Distributed Cognition in Victorian Culture and Modernism written by Anderson Miranda Anderson and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2020-08-18 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together 11 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.