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055 8 $aPR408.S34$bH33 2018
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100 1 $aHabinek, Lianne,$d1979-$eauthor.
245 14 $aThe subtle knot :$bearly modern english literature and the birth of neuroscience /$cLianne Habinek.
264 1 $aMontréal ;$aKingson ;$aLondon ;$aChicago :$bMcGill-Queen's University Press,$c[2018]
300 $axv, 283 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 251-272) and index.
520 $a"In the early modern period, poetic form underpinned and influenced scientific progress. The language and imagery of seventeenth-century writers and natural philosophers reveal how the age-old struggle between body and soul led to the brain's emergence as a curiosity in its own right. Investigating the intersection of the humanities and sciences in the works of authors ranging from William Shakespeare and John Donne to William Harvey, Margaret Cavendish, and Johann Remmelin, Lianne Habinek tells how early modernity came to view the brain not simply as grey matter, but as a wealth of other wondrous possibilities - a book in which to read the soul's writing, a black box to be violently unlocked, a womb to nourish intellectual conception, a creative engine, a subtle knot that traps the soul and thereby makes us human. For seventeenth-century thinkers, she argues, these comparisons were not simply casual metaphors, but integral to early ideas about brain function. Demonstrating how the disparate fields of neuroscientific history and literary studies converged, The Subtle Knot weaves the narrative of how the mind came to be identified with the brain."--$cProvided by publisher.
530 $aAlso issued in electronic formats.
650 0 $aScience in literature.
650 0 $aMind and body in literature.
650 0 $aMedicine in literature.
650 0 $aEnglish literature$yEarly modern, 1500-1700$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aNeurosciences and the humanities.
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650 7 $aMedicine in literature.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01015167
650 7 $aMind and body in literature.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01022006
650 7 $aNeurosciences and the humanities.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01764062
650 7 $aScience in literature.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01108731
648 7 $a1500-1700$2fast
655 7 $aCriticism, interpretation, etc.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01411635
776 1 $aHabinek, Lianne, 1979-, author.$tSubtle knot.:$dMontreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2018.$w(CaOONL)20189009969
852 00 $bglx$hPR408.S34$iH33 2018