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

Creator

• Stiles, Anne, 1975-

Subject

• 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"--

Member of

• Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture, 78

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Provided by publisher

Cataloging source

DLC

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