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Professor Peter Garratt's Outputs (2)

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..