Consciousness and the Novel: Connected Essays

Human consciousness, long the province of literature, has lately come in for a remapping—even rediscovery—by the natural sciences, driven by developments in Artificial Intelligence, neuroscience, and evolutionary biology. As the richest record we have of human consciousness, literature, David Lodge suggests, may offer a kind of understanding that is complementary, not opposed, to scientific knowledge. Writing with characteristic wit and brio, and employing the insight and acumen of a skille...