Introduction: How the Novel Found Its Feet
4E Cognition and Eighteenth-Century Fiction March 28, 2019 Karin Kukkonen
The introduction outlines 4E approaches to cognition—embodied, embedded, extended, and enactive—and explains how they are applied to developments in the eighteenth-century novel. 4E cognition conceptualizes thinking as rooted in the body and its movement, connected to social environments and interactions, involving material artifacts, and dependent on perception through the body. The chapter relates the book's contribution to earlier cognitive literary studies and to materialism and book history in eighteenth-century studies.