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Neurology and Literature, 1860-1920 A. Stiles

Neurology and Literature, 1860-1920 By A. Stiles

Neurology and Literature, 1860-1920 by A. Stiles

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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.

Neurology and Literature, 1860-1920 Summary

Neurology and Literature, 1860-1920 by A. Stiles

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.

Neurology and Literature, 1860-1920 Reviews

'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

About A. Stiles

JAMES KENNAWAY Postdoctoral research fellow in the music department at Stanford University, USA RANDALL KNOPER Associate Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA DON LACOSS Assistant Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin, LaCrosse, USA ANDREW MANGHAM Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Reading, UK JILL L. MATUS Professor of English and Vice-Principal of University College at the University of Toronto, Canada MARK S. MICALE Associate Professor of History at the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana, USA LAURA OTIS Professor of English at Emory University, USA KRISTINE SWENSON Associate Professor of English at the University of Missouri-Rolla, USA

Table of Contents

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

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NPB9780230520943
9780230520943
0230520944
Neurology and Literature, 1860-1920 by A. Stiles
A. Stiles
Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
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Hardback
Palgrave Macmillan
2007-09-28
229
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