Problems of Attention in Eighteenth-Century Literature.
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Long before the cell phone in our pockets, people worried about distractions and focus. Phillips shows how authors like Austen, Johnson, Sterne, Haywood, and others worried about this problem and discussed it, and entertainingly, showcased the problem in their novels. Poor Lydia Bennet, for example, cannot sustain her attention. This study shows how modern neuroscience studies are part of a long discourse. Johns Hopkins Universtiy Press. 2016. Hb, Dj. NEW. $45.00
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