Jane Austen Weekly: Elizabeth Bennet's Brain Scan
Susan Celia Greenfield
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Posted 12.11.2012
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In Pride and Prejudice, the reward for meticulous critical scrutiny is self-consciousness, intellectual expansion and moral growth. Long before the invention of fMRIs, Jane Austen knew that close reading was good for the brain... and for the soul.
