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Blakey Vermeule
professor of English
Blakey Vermeule is a professor of English. Her research interests are neuroaesthetics, cognitive and evolutionary approaches to art, philosophy and literature, British literature from 1660-1820, post-Colonial fiction, satire, and the history of the novel. She co-founded the online book review website The New Rambler, which publishes reviews of books about ideas, including literary fiction.
She is the author of two books, The Party of Humanity: Writing Moral Psychology in Eighteenth-Century Britain (2000) and Why Do We Care About Literary Characters? (2009). She is currently writing a book about what mind science has discovered about the unconscious.
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