Aesthetic Perception and Embodied Cognition: Art and Literature at the Fin de Siècle
Distributed Cognition in Victorian Culture and Modernism September 1, 2020 Marion Thain
The modernity of late-nineteenth-century visualities has been influentially and persistently located in a disembodiment of the eye. Yet this was a period which saw theorists of aesthetic perception such as Vernon Lee and Bernard Berenson developing embodied formulations of vision that put sight and the other senses into intimate dialogue. Starting with Vernon Lee’s writing on ‘empathy’ and...