Popular fiction and brain science in the late nineteenth century
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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
- Statement of responsibility
- Anne Stiles
- Subject
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- Englisch
- English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism
- Geschichte 1860-1900
- Gothic fiction (Literary genre), English -- History and criticism
- Gothic novel
- Gothic revival (Literature) -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
- Hirnforschung
- LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- Literature and medicine -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
- Literature and science -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
- Mind and body in literature
- Neurosciences -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
- Neurosciences and the arts
- Physiology in literature
- Brain -- Research -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "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"--
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- Dewey number
- 823/.0872909
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- PR878.T3
- LC item number
- S75 2012
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- Series statement
- Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture
- Series volume
- 78
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