Moving Worlds: Fictionality and Illusion After Coleridge.

Garratt, Peter

Abstract

This article examines Victorian philosophical responses to fictional worlds. It revisits Coleridge’s coinage of the ‘willing suspension of disbelief’, a phrase still taken to be an explanation of the mind’s inner experience of fictionality, before focusing on volition and illusion in John Stuart Mill, G. H. Lewes and James Sully. It ends by positioning these aspects of nineteenth-century intellectual culture in relation to a recent revival of interest in reading practices and ‘cognitive’ literary criticism.

Citation

Garratt, P. (2012). Moving Worlds: Fictionality and Illusion After Coleridge. Literature Compass, 9(11), 752-763. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1741-4113.2012.00908.x

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Publication Date: 2012-11
• Deposit Date: Jan 10, 2013
• Journal: Literature Compass
• Electronic ISSN: 1741-4113
• Publisher: Wiley
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 9
• Issue: 11
• Pages: 752-763
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1741-4113.2012.00908.x
• Public URL: https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1498836