Neurology and Literature, 1860-1920

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Anne Stiles
Palgrave Macmillan, 28 sept 2007 - 229 páginas
The essays in this collection demonstrate how late-Victorian and Edwardian neurology and fiction shared common philosophical concerns and rhetorical strategies. Between 1860 and 1920, neurologists like Silas Weir Mitchell and Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote moving literature, while novelists like H.G. Wells and Wilkie Collins used fiction to dramatize neurological discoveries and their consequences. These six decades witnessed unprecedented interdisciplinary collaboration between scientists and artists, who found common ground in their shared ambivalence towards the prevailing intellectual climate of biological determinism.

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Decadent Arts the Magnetic Sleep
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How Do I Look? Dysmorphophobia and Obsession
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Elizabeth Stuart Phelpss
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ANNE STILES is Assistant Professor of English at Washington State University in Pullman, USA, where she teaches Victorian literature. Her work has appeared in Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, Journal of the History of the Neurosciences and Nineteenth-Century Literature.

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