Collations: Book Forum on David Coombs’s Reading with the Senses in Victorian Literature and Science
The V21 Collations: Book Forum welcomes Elaine Auyoung, Nate Crocker, and Anna Gibson in conversation about David Sweeney Coombs’s Reading with the Senses in Victorian Literature and Science (Virginia, 2019). Coombs’s book is a fascinating intervention into our understanding of the physiology of reading. Provocatively juxtaposing nineteenth century physiological epistemologies of perception alongside Victorian literature, …read more