عنوان

Popular fiction and brain science in the late nineteenth century /

شابک

1107010012

شابک

9781107010017

شماره

dltt

عنوان اصلي

Popular fiction and brain science in the late nineteenth century /

نام عام مواد

[Book]

نام نخستين پديدآور

Anne Stiles

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

New York :

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Cambridge University Press,

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

2012

نام خاص و کميت اثر

xi, 255 p. :

ساير جزييات

ill. ;

ابعاد

24 cm

عنوان فروست

Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ;

مشخصه جلد

78

متن يادداشت

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

متن يادداشت

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

بدون عنوان

0

متن يادداشت

"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"--

موضوع مستند نشده

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

موضوع مستند نشده

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

موضوع مستند نشده

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

موضوع مستند نشده

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

موضوع مستند نشده

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

موضوع مستند نشده

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

موضوع مستند نشده

Mind and body in literature

موضوع مستند نشده

Neurosciences and the arts

موضوع مستند نشده

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

موضوع مستند نشده

Physiology in literature

شماره

ويراست

شماره رده

نشانه اثر

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Stiles, Anne,1975-

تاريخ عمليات

20120316123235.0

نام الکترونيکي

نوع ماده

[Book]

تكميل شده

Y