4E Cognition and Eighteenth-Century Fiction

Introduction: How the Novel Found Its Feet

4E Cognition and Eighteenth-Century Fiction March 28, 2019 Karin Kukkonen

Abstract The introduction presents an outline of 4E approaches to cognition and sketches how these approaches are brought to bear on developments in the eighteenth-century novel in this book. 4E cognition conceptualises cognition as embodied (as thinking is rooted in our bodies and their movement), embedded (as the mind/body connects to social environments and interactions with others),...