Popular fiction and brain science in the late nineteenth century /

Popular fiction and brain science in the late nineteenth century /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Stiles, Anne, 1975-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Series:Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 78.
Subjects:
Gothic fiction (Literary genre), English > History and criticism.
Neurosciences and the arts.
Brain > Research > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Gothic revival (Literature) > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Literature and science > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Literature and medicine > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Neurosciences > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Mind and body in literature.
Physiology in literature.
English fiction > 19th century > History and criticism.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Cerebral localization and the late Victorian Gothic romance
  • Part I, Reactionaries: 1. Robert Louis Stevenson's Jekyll and Hyde and the double brain ; 2. Bram Stoker's Dracula and cerebral automatism
  • Part II, Materialists: 3. Photographic memory in the works of Grant Allen
  • Part III, Visionaries: 4. H. G. Wells and the evolution of the mad scientist ; 5. Marie Corelli and the neuron
  • Epilogue: Looking forward.