Reinvigorates our understanding of Victorian and modernist works and societyOffers a wide ranging application of theories of distributed cognition to Victorian culture and ModernismExplores the distinctive nature and expression of notions of distributed cognition in Victorian culture and Modernism and considers their relation to current notionsReinvigorates our understanding of Western European works including Wordsworth T S Eliot and Virginia Woolf and society by bringing to bear recent insights on the distributed nature of cognitionIncludes essays by international specialists in Victorian culture and Modernist literature history technology science philosophy and art including Andrew Michael Roberts Jennifer Gosetti Ferencei and Melba Cuddy KeaneIncludes essays on literature history technology science philosophy and artThis book brings together 11 essays by international specialists in Victorian culture and modernism and provides a general and period specific introduction to distributed cognition and the cognitive humanities Together they revitalise our reading of Victorian and modernist works in the fields of history of technology science and medicine material culture philosophy art and literary studies by bringing to bear recent insights in cognitive science and philosophy of mind on the ways in which cognition is distributed across brain body and world Notes on ContributorsMiranda Anderson University of Stirling and University of Edinburgh UK Marco Bernini Durham University UK Melba Cuddy Keane University of Toronto Canada Peter Garratt Durham University Adam Lively University of London UK Ben Morgan Worcester College and University of Oxford UK Andrew Michael Roberts Universities of Dundee and St Andrews UK Mark Sprevak University of Edinburgh UK Marion Thain King s College London Emily Troscianko University of Oxford UK Kerry Watson Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art UK Michael Wheeler University of Stirling UK Eleanore Widger Scottish Poetry Library UK