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Nervous Fictions : Literary Form and the Enlightenment Origins of Neuroscience.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2020Copyright date: ©2021Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (327 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780813944791
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Nervous FictionsDDC classification:
  • 820.93561
LOC classification:
  • PR438.S37 .K457 2020
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Personifying the Brain -- 2. Nervous Figures -- 3. From Metaphor to Madness -- 4. Visionary Dissections -- 5. From the Homunculus to the Great Sensorium of the World -- 6. The Hypochondriac's Watch -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: In this respect, literary language became a tool to aid scientific investigation, while science spurred literary invention.
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Personifying the Brain -- 2. Nervous Figures -- 3. From Metaphor to Madness -- 4. Visionary Dissections -- 5. From the Homunculus to the Great Sensorium of the World -- 6. The Hypochondriac's Watch -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

In this respect, literary language became a tool to aid scientific investigation, while science spurred literary invention.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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