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Professor Peter Garratt's Outputs (25)

Out of Breath: Respiratory Aesthetics from Ruskin to Vernon Lee (2018)
Book Chapter
Garratt, P. (2018). Out of Breath: Respiratory Aesthetics from Ruskin to Vernon Lee. In A. Rose (Ed.), Reading breath in literature (65-90). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99948-7_4

This chapter examines the roles played by respiration—as physiological process, and embodied response—in the development of aesthetic theories at the end of the nineteenth century, traced from Ruskin to Vernon Lee. Late nineteenth-century attempts to... Read More about Out of Breath: Respiratory Aesthetics from Ruskin to Vernon Lee.

Scientific Literary Criticism. (2017)
Book Chapter
Garratt, P. (2017). Scientific Literary Criticism. In J. Holmes, & S. Ruston (Eds.), The Routledge Research Companion to Nineteenth-Century British Literature and Science (115-127). Routledge

The Cognitive Humanities: Embodied Mind in Literature and Culture (2016)
Book
Garratt, P. (Ed.). (2016). The Cognitive Humanities: Embodied Mind in Literature and Culture. Palgrave Macmillan

This book identifies the ‘cognitive humanities’ with new approaches to literature and culture that engage with recent theories of the embodied mind in cognitive science. If cognition should be approached less as a matter of internal representation—a... Read More about The Cognitive Humanities: Embodied Mind in Literature and Culture.

The Cognitive Humanities: Whence and Whither? (2016)
Book Chapter
Garratt, P. (2016). The Cognitive Humanities: Whence and Whither?. In P. Garratt (Ed.), The Cognitive Humanities: Embodied Mind in Literature and Culture (1-15). Palgrave Macmillan

Romantic Refractions: Light Effects in Ruskin's Poetry (2016)
Journal Article
Garratt, P. (2016). Romantic Refractions: Light Effects in Ruskin's Poetry. Romanticism, 22(3), 279-288. https://doi.org/10.3366/rom.2016.0289

The poetry of John Ruskin – which amounts to a surprisingly large body of work, mostly written in the 1830s and 1840s – reveals the stirrings of the moral perceptual attitude that would emerge with such distinctive force in Modern Painters, yet one g... Read More about Romantic Refractions: Light Effects in Ruskin's Poetry.

Victorian Literary Aesthetics and Mental Pathology. (2016)
Book Chapter
Garratt, P. (2016). Victorian Literary Aesthetics and Mental Pathology. In A. Whitehead, A. Woods, S. Atkinson, J. Macnaughton, & J. Richards (Eds.), The Edinburgh Companion to the Critical Medical Humanities (428-443). Edinburgh University Press

Cognitive Science and Critical Theory. (2016)
Book Chapter
Garratt, P. (2016). Cognitive Science and Critical Theory. In S. Sim (Ed.), The Edinburgh Companion to Critical Theory (456-473). Edinburgh University Press

Voices and the Imaginative Ear. (2015)
Journal Article
Garratt, P. (2015). Voices and the Imaginative Ear. The Lancet, 386(10010), 2248-2249. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736%2815%2901114-9

“Jesters”, says Regan in King Lear, “do oft prove prophets”. Perhaps so. Try this one: “In everyday life, talking about imaginary people as though they were real is known as psychosis; in universities, it is known as literary criticism.” The jester h... Read More about Voices and the Imaginative Ear..

Sublime Transport: Ruskin, Travel and the Art of Speed. (2015)
Book Chapter
Garratt, P. (2015). Sublime Transport: Ruskin, Travel and the Art of Speed. In B. Murray, & M. Henes (Eds.), Travel Writing, Visual Culture and Form, 1760-1900 (194-212). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137543394_10

Towards the end of George Eliot’s The Mill on the Floss, Tom Tulliver’s uncle Mr Deane observes that the defining quality of modern life is its speed. Life, he tells Tom, ‘goes on at a smarter pace’ than a generation before, accelerated by the effect... Read More about Sublime Transport: Ruskin, Travel and the Art of Speed..

Moving Worlds: Fictionality and Illusion After Coleridge. (2012)
Journal Article
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

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 fo... Read More about Moving Worlds: Fictionality and Illusion After Coleridge..

Ruskin's Modern Painters and the Visual Language of Reality. (2009)
Journal Article
Garratt, P. (2009). Ruskin's Modern Painters and the Visual Language of Reality. Journal of Victorian Culture, 14(1), 53-71. https://doi.org/10.3366/e1355550209000599

Ruskin, the most influential mid-Victorian aesthetician, has typically been affiliated by critics with one of two incongruous regimes of thought; late English romanticism or an emerging counter-paradigm of factual science. Unwilling to refine this op... Read More about Ruskin's Modern Painters and the Visual Language of Reality..

George Meredith and the Psychology of Style
Book Chapter
Garratt, P. George Meredith and the Psychology of Style. In A. Viragh, & M. Thain (Eds.), Mind and Embodiment in Late Victorian Literature. Edinburgh University Press