عنوان

Neurology and literature, 1860-1920 /

0230287883

0230520944

9780230287884

9780230520943

b736560

Neurology and literature, 1860-1920 /

[Book]

edited by Anne Stiles.

New York :

Palgrave Macmillan,

2007.

x, 229 pages :

illustrations, portraits ;

23 cm

Palgrave studies in nineteenth-century writing and culture

Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-220) and index.

List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- Anne Stiles -- Part I: Catalysts -- 1. Howled Out of the Country: Wilkie Collins and H.G. Wells Retry David Ferrier -- Laura Otis -- 2. Our Lady of Darkness: Decadent Arts and the Magnetic Sleep of Magdeleine G -- Don LaCoss -- Part II: Diagnostic Categories -- 3. How do I Look? Dysmorphophobia and Obsession at the Fin de Siecle -- Andrew Mangham -- 4. Doctor Zay and Dr. Mitchell: Elizabeth Stuart Phelps's -- Feminist Response to Mainstream Neurology -- Kristine Swenson -- Part III: Sex and the Brain -- 5. Trauma and Sexual Inversion, circa 1885: Oliver Wendell Holmes's A Mortal -- Antipathy and Maladies of Representation -- Randall Knoper -- 6. Singing the Body Electric: Nervous Music and Sexuality in Fin-de-Siecle Literature -- James Kennaway -- Part IV: The Traumatized Brain -- 7. Emergent Theories of Victorian Mind Shock: From War and Railway Accident to Nerves, Electricity and Emotion -- Jill Matus -- 8. Medical and Literary Discourses of Trauma in the Age of the American Civil War -- Mark Micale.

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The essays in this collection demonstrate how late-Victorian and Edwardian neurology and fiction shared common philosophical concerns and rhetorical strategies.

Neurology and literature, 1860-1920.

Neurology and literature, 1860-1920.

English literature-- 19th century-- History and criticism.

English literature-- 20th century-- History and criticism.

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

Literature and science-- Great Britain-- History-- 20th century.

Mind and body in literature.

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

Neurosciences-- Great Britain-- History-- 20th century.

History, 19th Century.

History, 20th Century.

Medicine in Literature.

Nervous System Diseases-- history.

Neurology-- history.

Englisch

English literature.

Literatur

Literature and science.

Mind and body in literature.

Neurosciences.

Neurowissenschaften

United Kingdom.

Englisch.

Great Britain.

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Stiles, Anne,1975-

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