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Popular fiction and brain science in the late nineteenth century /

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Popular fiction and brain science in the late nineteenth century /

[Book]

Anne Stiles

New York :

Cambridge University Press,

2012

xi, 255 p. :

ill. ;

24 cm

Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ;

78

Includes bibliographical references (p. 232-247) and index

Introduction: Cerebral localization and the late Victorian Gothic romance -- Part I, Reactionaries: 1. Robert Louis Stevenson's Jekyll and Hyde and the double brain ; 2. Bram Stoker's Dracula and cerebral automatism -- Part II, Materialists: 3. Photographic memory in the works of Grant Allen -- Part III, Visionaries: 4. H. G. Wells and the evolution of the mad scientist ; 5. Marie Corelli and the neuron -- Epilogue: Looking forward

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"In the 1860s and 1870s, leading neurologists used animal experimentation to establish that discrete sections of the brain regulate specific mental and physical functions. These discoveries had immediate medical benefits: David Ferrier's detailed cortical maps, for example, saved lives by helping surgeons locate brain tumors and haemorrhages without first opening up the skull. These experiments both incited controversy and stimulated creative thought, because they challenged the possibility of an extra-corporeal soul. This book examines the cultural impact of neurological experiments on late Victorian Gothic romances by Robert Louis Stevenson, Bram Stoker, H. G. Wells and others. Novels like Dracula and Jekyll and Hyde expressed the deep-seated fears and visionary possibilities suggested by cerebral localization research and offered a corrective to the linearity and objectivity of late Victorian neurology"--

Brain-- Research-- Great Britain-- History-- 19th century

English fiction-- 19th century-- History and criticism

Gothic fiction (Literary genre), English-- History and criticism

Gothic revival (Literature)-- Great Britain-- History-- 19th century

Literature and medicine-- Great Britain-- History-- 19th century

Literature and science-- Great Britain-- History-- 19th century

Mind and body in literature

Neurosciences and the arts

Neurosciences-- Great Britain-- History-- 19th century

Physiology in literature

Stiles, Anne,1975-

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