The Visceral Novel Reader: A Cultural History of Embodied Novel Reading in Britain, 1688-1927

读者可以在小说中运用他们所有的感官体验，包括他们过去的感知，使叙述的事件、人物和场景栩栩如生。基于现象学的信念，即我们的五种感官构成了我们主观体验的生命体（Merleau-Ponty 2012），本项目称这种小说阅读为“具身”。本研究检视了从复辟时期到文学现代主义的这种具身小说阅读。它选择了英国文学史上具有里程碑意义的小说，以理论化读者对这些小说在出版初期特定的社会和历史环境中的参与。该语料库由十部小说组成，从“Oroonoko”到“到灯塔”。本文的主要目的是展现从17世纪末到20世纪初神经中心主义转向以来不同历史阶段的具身小说阅读。假设是，具体的读者反应是小说在维多利亚时代前所未有的受人尊敬的地位和文学现代主义的口头艺术的重要组成部分。这个研究项目的独创性包括开发一个复杂的，上下文敏感的读者模型称为“内脏小说读者”，通过整合施为理论和话语分析，以及通过一个精细的分类阅读经验，扩展了保罗利科的三重模仿的前，配置和重新配置（1984年）。为了从历时的角度来探讨具身小说阅读这一尚未被研究过的课题，本研究对所选文本进行了系统的分析，即在结构层面上对叙事结构、中介性和副文本的分析，以及在预构层面上对它们之间的相关性的考察（活的身体，媒体和感官历史，身体作为医学学科化的产物），以及在重构的层面上（阅读经验的叙事，中介和副文本唤起）。在这样做的过程中，“内脏-小说-读者”模式将充实伊瑟尔和饶伊茨所构想的不流血的接受美学，并且将《内脏小说读者：英国文化中的罗马人的自由行动》在当前关于批评实践和去神秘化限度的辩论中进行建设性的干预（Felski 2003，2008，2015）。因此，该模型有望大大有助于读者的体现，情感和影响的跨学科研究。

Readers can bring to bear on the novels they engage with all their sensory imaginings including their past perceptions in a way that brings the narrated events, figures and settings to life. Based on the phenomenological belief that our five senses constitute our lived body as we subjectively experience it (Merleau-Ponty 2012), the present project calls this kind of novel reading “embodied”. The study examines such embodied novel reading from the Restoration period until literary Modernism. It selects landmark novels in the history of British literature in order to theorize readers’ engagements with these novels in the specific social and historical circumstances of the initial time of publication. The corpus consists of ten novels, ranging from "Oroonoko" to "To the Lighthouse". The main objective is to unfold embodied novel reading at different historical stages since the turn to neuro-centrism in the late seventeenth until the early twentieth centuries. The hypothesis is that embodied reader response is part and parcel of the rise of the novel to unprecedented respectability in the era Victorian, and to verbal art in literary Modernism. The originality of this research project consists of developing a complex, context-sensitive reader model called the “visceral novel reader” that expands Paul Ricoeur’s triple mimesis of pre-, con- and re-figuration (1984) through the integration of performative theories and discourse analysis, as well as through a refined taxonomy of reading experiences. In order to approach embodied novel reading diachronically, which has not been studied yet, the project conducts a systematic analysis of the chosen text in several stages, namely the analysis of narrative structures, intermediality and paratext on the level of configuration as well as the investigation of their correlates on the level of prefiguration (lived body, media and sensory history, the body as a product of medical disciplinarization), and on the level of refiguration (the narrative, intermedial, and paratextual evocation of reading experiences). In doing so, the “visceral-novel-reader” model will flesh out the bloodless aesthetics of reception conceived by Iser and Jauß and will The Visceral Novel Reader: Der leibliche Akt des Romanlesens in der britischen Kulturgeschichte make a constructive intervention in the current debate about the practice of critique and the limits of demystification (Felski 2003, 2008, 2015). As such, the model promises to contribute significantly to the interdisciplinary investigation of readerly embodiment, emotion, and affect.