British Romanticism and the science of the mind / / Alan Richardson [[electronic resource]]

• Autore: Richardson Alan <1955->
• Pubblicazione: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2001
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xx, 243 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 820.9/356
• Soggetto topico: English literature - 19th century - History and criticism; Literature and science - Great Britain - History - 19th century; Brain - Research - Great Britain - History - 19th century; Neurosciences - Great Britain - History - 19th century; Romanticism - Great Britain; Mind and body in literature; Psychology in literature
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-236) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Illustrations; Preface; Abbreviations; CHAPTER ONE Introduction: neural Romanticism; CHAPTER TWO Coleridge and the new unconscious; CHAPTER THREE A beating mind: Wordsworth's poetics and the science of feelingsŽ; CHAPTER FOUR Of heartache and head injury: minds, brains, and the subject of Persuasion; CHAPTER FIVE Keats and the glories of the brain; CHAPTER SIX Embodied universalism, Romantic discourse, and the anthropological imagination; CHAPTER SEVEN Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: In this provocative and original study, Alan Richardson examines an entire range of intellectual, cultural, and ideological points of contact between British Romantic literary writing and the pioneering brain science of the time. Richardson breaks new ground in two fields, revealing a significant and undervalued facet of British Romanticism while demonstrating the 'Romantic' character of early neuroscience. Crucial notions like the active mind, organicism, the unconscious, the fragmented subject, instinct and intuition, arising simultaneously within the literature and psychology of the era, take on unsuspected valences that transform conventional accounts of Romantic cultural history. Neglected issues like the corporeality of mind, the role of non-linguistic communication, and the peculiarly Romantic understanding of cultural universals are reopened in discussions that bring new light to bear on long-standing critical puzzles, from Coleridge's suppression of 'Kubla Khan', to Wordsworth's perplexing theory of poetic language, to Austen's interest in head injury.
• Altri titoli varianti: British Romanticism & the Science of the Mind
• Titolo autorizzato: British Romanticism and the science of the mind
• ISBN: 1-107-12052-7; 1-280-15913-8; 0-511-11869-4; 0-511-01205-5; 0-511-15309-0; 0-511-32510-X; 0-511-48446-1; 0-511-04613-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910454941503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Cambridge studies in Romanticism ; ; 47.