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Writing the brain : material minds and literature, 1800-1880 / Stefan Schöberlein.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Schöberlein, Stefan, author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Brain in literature.
- Literature and science--History--19th century.
- Literature and science.
- English literature--19th century--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- American literature--19th century--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- Neurosciences--Great Britain--History--19th century.
- Neurosciences.
- Neurosciences--United States--History--19th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (281 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2023.
- Summary:
- 'Writing the Brain' analyzes the intersections, overlaps, and cross pollutions between early brain science and literature between 1800 and 1880 in England and the United States. Many of the foundational insights of modern neuroscience were made during this period, but they have rarely received extended scholarly attention in literary studies. Author Stefan Schöberlein changes that by reading literary genres and neuroscientific discoveries in tandem, often with particular attention to technological similes and metaphors.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Writing the Brain
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- The First Century of the Brain: An Introduction
- 1. Nature's Mind and Mind's Nature: Romantic Cognition Between Harp and Atom
- Harp Strings
- Mind-Strings
- Mind-Matter
- Mind-Atoms
- 2. Split Brains, Doubled Minds: The Gothic's Bicameral Vision
- The Sleepers
- Dialoging the Self
- Hemispheric Voices
- Master-Minds
- 3. Skulls and Society: Reading the Mind as a Multi-Organ Entity
- Brain Damage
- Phrenology as Sociology
- Phrenological Victorianism
- Phrenological Americanism
- Phrenology's Real
- 4. Cranial Reconstruction: Racialized Brains and the Psychometric Real
- Uncommon Minds
- Great Brains
- A Cranial Case Study
- Realism as Psychometry
- 5. Rattle-Brained: Insanity as Material Metacognition
- You, Me, Brain
- Metempsychosis as Metacognition
- Insanity as Pop Culture
- Psychosis as Metacognition
- 6. The Telegraphed Brain: Wires as Proto-Neurons
- Thoughts on Wires
- Telegraphed Minds
- Introspective Brain-Machines
- Afterword
- References
- Index.
- Notes:
- Also issued in print: 2023.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on September 1, 2023).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Schöberlein, Stefan Writing the Brain
- ISBN:
- 0-19-769371-7
- 0-19-769369-5
- OCLC:
- 1395182534
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