Philosophy + Literature Workshop: Doug Battersby

The Philosophy + Literature Focal Group welcomes Doug Battersby (Bristol University) for a workshop titled  "Cardiac Realism". 

His current project treats a tradition of British novelists who turn to the heart to grapple with one of the great philosophical challenges of the novel form: how to put the physicality of feeling into prose? The book draws on the history and theory of the novel, affect theory and emotion history, and the history of medicine and science.