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200 10$aNervous fictions $eliterary form and the enlightenment origins of neuroscience /$fJess Keiser
210  1$aCharlottesville ;$aLondon :$cUniversity of Virginia Press,$d[2020]
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215   $a1 online resource (327 pages)
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320   $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
327   $aPersonifying 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.
330   $a"Nervous Fictions looks at early writing on the brain and figurative language. It argues that as more became known about the brain and nervous system in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, new literary technologies needed to be developed to describe body and mind"--$cProvided by publisher.
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