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Nervous Fictions Literary Form and the Enlightenment Origins of Neuroscience
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Nervous Fictions Literary Form and the Enlightenment Origins of Neuroscience / Jess Keiser.
ISBN
0813944791
9780813944791
9780813944777
Publication
Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2020.
Manufacture
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2020
Copyright Notice Date
©2020.
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1 online resource
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Summary
"Nervous Fictions looks at early writing on the brain and figurative language. It argues that as more became known about the brain and nervous system in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, new literary technologies needed to be developed to describe body and mind"-- Provided by publisher.
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Project MUSE - 2020 Complete
Project MUSE - 2020 Literature
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Print version: Keiser, Jess, 1984- Nervous fictions Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2020.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
September 21, 2020
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Personifying the Brain: Thomas Willis's Neuroscience
Nervous Figures: Cavendish's and Panpsychism
From Metaphor to Madness: Locke's History
Visionary Dissections: The Satire of Anatomy
From the Homunculus to the Great Sensorium of the World: Sterne's Nerves
The Hypochondriac's Watch: Boswell's Case
Conclusion.
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