British Romanticism and the science of the mind / Alan Richardson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Richardson, Alan, 1955- author.

Series:

Cambridge studies in Romanticism ; 47.

Cambridge studies in Romanticism ; 47

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--19th century--History and criticism.

English literature.

Literature and science--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Literature and science.

Brain--Research--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Brain.

Neurosciences--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Neurosciences.

Romanticism--Great Britain.

Romanticism.

Mind and body in literature.

Psychology in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xx, 243 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

British Romanticism & the Science of the Mind

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this provocative and original study, Alan Richardson examines an entire range of intellectual, cultural, and ideological points of contact between British Romantic literary writing and the pioneering brain science of the time. Richardson breaks new ground in two fields, revealing a significant and undervalued facet of British Romanticism while demonstrating the 'Romantic' character of early neuroscience. Crucial notions like the active mind, organicism, the unconscious, the fragmented subject, instinct and intuition, arising simultaneously within the literature and psychology of the era, take on unsuspected valences that transform conventional accounts of Romantic cultural history. Neglected issues like the corporeality of mind, the role of non-linguistic communication, and the peculiarly Romantic understanding of cultural universals are reopened in discussions that bring new light to bear on long-standing critical puzzles, from Coleridge's suppression of 'Kubla Khan', to Wordsworth's perplexing theory of poetic language, to Austen's interest in head injury.

Contents:

Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Illustrations; Preface; Abbreviations; CHAPTER ONE Introduction: neural Romanticism; CHAPTER TWO Coleridge and the new unconscious; CHAPTER THREE A beating mind: Wordsworth's poetics and the science of feelingsŽ; CHAPTER FOUR Of heartache and head injury: minds, brains, and the subject of Persuasion; CHAPTER FIVE Keats and the glories of the brain; CHAPTER SIX Embodied universalism, Romantic discourse, and the anthropological imagination; CHAPTER SEVEN Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-236) and index.

ISBN:

1-107-12052-7

1-280-15913-8

0-511-11869-4

0-511-01205-5

0-511-15309-0

0-511-32510-X

0-511-48446-1

0-511-04613-8

OCLC:

559071981