01814nam 2200397 450 991079561940332120230124202410.00-8139-4477-5(CKB)5590000000000158(MiAaPQ)EBC6151853(EXLCZ)99559000000000015820201007d2020 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierNervous fictions literary form and the enlightenment origins of neuroscience /Jess KeiserCharlottesville ;London :University of Virginia Press,[2020]©20201 online resource (327 pages)0-8139-4479-1 Includes bibliographical references and index.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."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.Literature and scienceEnglandHistory17th centuryLiterature and scienceHistory820.9004Keiser Jess1984-1535643MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910795619403321Nervous fictions3783970UNINA