Neurology and literature, 1860-1920 [Elektronisk resurs] / Edited by Anne Stiles.

• List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction-- A.Stiles PART I: CATALYSTS Howled Out of the Country: Wilkie Collins and H.G. Wells Retry David Ferrier-- L.Otis Our Lady of Darkness: Decadent Arts and the Magnetic Sleep of Magdeleine G.-- D.LaCoss PART II: DIAGNOSTIC CATEGORIES How Do I Look? Dysmorphophobia and Obsession at the Fin de Siecle-- A.Mangham Doctor Zay and Dr. Mitchell: Elizabeth Stuart Phelps's Feminist Response to Mainstream Neurology-- K.Swenson PART III: SEX AND THE BRAIN Trauma and Sexual Inversion, circa 1885: Dr Holmes's A Mortal Antipathy and Maladies of Representation-- R.Knoper Singing the Body Electric: Nervous Music and Sexuality in Fin-de-Siecle Literature-- J.Kennaway PART IV: THE TRAUMATIZED BRAIN Emergent Theories of Victorian Mind Shock: From War and Railway Accident to Nerves, Electricity and Emotion-- J.Matus Medical and Literary Discourses of Trauma in the Age of the American Civil War-- M.Micale Works Cited Index.

• This collection demonstrates how late-Victorian and Edwardian neurology and fiction shared common philosophical concerns and rhetorical strategies. Between 1860 and 1920 witnessed unprecedented interdisciplinary collaboration between scientists and artists, finding common ground in the prevailing intellectual climate of biological determinism. -- In the early 1860s, neurology and the study of language collided dramatically when French neurologist Paul Broca linked the third frontal convolution of the left brain hemisphere to linguistic ability. The six decades that followed witnessed unprecedented collaboration between neuroscience and the arts. While literary-minded neurologists like Silas Weir Mitchell and Santiago Ramon y Cajal wove contemporary theories of brain function into their novels, authors such as Wilkie Collins, Robert Louis Stevenson and H.G. Wells used fiction to probe the philosophical ramifications of these neurological findings, some of which proved extremely controversial. By suggesting that certain parts of the brain controlled certain physical and mental functions, Victorian mental science undermined the widespread lay perception that human behaviour was controlled by free will or an immortal soul. In this volume, renowned historians and literary scholars including Mark Micale, Laura Otis and Jill Matus explain how late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century fiction incorporated neurological concepts as a means of coming to grips with late-Victorian biological determinism. 
• 'Neurology and Literature is a wonderful addition to a developing critical field and readers with an interest in nineteenth-century sciences will find this instructive collection of essays both helpful and diverting...Its original and illuminating insights will, no doubt, be welcomed by critics working in this field.' - Vike Martina Plock, Modernism/Modernity. 

Ämnesord

Mind and body in literature.  (LCSH)

Literature and science  -- History -- 19th century -- Great Britain. (LCSH)

English literature  -- History and criticism -- 19th century. (LCSH)

Literature and science  -- History -- 20th century -- Great Britain. (LCSH)

English literature  -- History and criticism -- 20th century. (LCSH)

Neurosciences  -- History -- 19th century -- Great Britain. (LCSH)

Neurosciences  -- History -- 20th century -- Great Britain. (LCSH)

Literature.  (eflch)

Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers  -- English -- c 1800 to c 1900 -- 20th century. (bicssc)

Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900  -- English -- c 1800 to c 1900 -- 20th century. (bicssc)

Neurology & clinical neurophysiology  -- English -- c 1800 to c 1900 -- 20th century. (bicssc)

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