Nervous fictions : literary form and the enlightenment origins of neuroscience / Jess Keiser.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Keiser, Jess, 1984- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature and science--England--History--17th century.

Literature and science.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (327 pages)

Place of Publication:

Charlottesville ; London : University of Virginia Press, [2020]

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.

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.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780813944777

0813944775