Nervous fictions : literary form and the enlightenment origins of neuroscience / / Jess Keiser
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Keiser Jess <1984->
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| Titolo: |
Nervous fictions : literary form and the enlightenment origins of neuroscience / / Jess Keiser
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| Pubblicazione: | Charlottesville ; ; London : , : University of Virginia Press, , [2020] |
| ©2020 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (327 pages) |
| Disciplina: | 820.9004 |
| Soggetto topico: | Literature and science - England - History - 17th century |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | "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"-- |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Nervous fictions |
| ISBN: | 0-8139-4477-5 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910808514603321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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