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001 2011038185
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008 110912s2012 enk b 001 0 eng
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020 $a9781107010017
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050 00 $aPR878.T3$bS75 2012
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084 $aLIT004120$2bisacsh
100 1 $aStiles, Anne$d1975-
245 10 $aPopular fiction and brain science in the late nineteenth century /$cAnne Stiles.
260 $aCambridge ;$aNew York :$bCambridge University Press,$c2012.
263 $a1112
300 $ap. cm.
490 0 $aCambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ;$v78
520 $a"In the 1860s and 1870s, leading neurologists used animal experimentation to establish that discrete sections of the brain regulate specific mental and physical functions. These discoveries had immediate medical benefits: David Ferrier's detailed cortical maps, for example, saved lives by helping surgeons locate brain tumors and haemorrhages without first opening up the skull. These experiments both incited controversy and stimulated creative thought, because they challenged the possibility of an extra-corporeal soul. This book examines the cultural impact of neurological experiments on late Victorian Gothic romances by Robert Louis Stevenson, Bram Stoker, H. G. Wells and others. Novels like Dracula and Jekyll and Hyde expressed the deep-seated fears and visionary possibilities suggested by cerebral localization research and offered a corrective to the linearity and objectivity of late Victorian neurology"--$cProvided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 8 $aMachine generated contents note: Introduction: cerebral localization and the late Victorian Gothic romance; Part I. Reactionaries: 1. Robert Louis Stevenson's Jekyll and Hyde and the double brain; 2. Bram Stoker's Dracula and cerebral automatism; Part II. Materialists: 3. Photographic memory in the works of Grant Allen; Part III. Visionaries: 4. H. G. Wells and the evolution of the mad scientist; 5. Marie Corelli and the neuron; Epilogue; Looking forward.
650 0 $aGothic fiction (Literary genre), English$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aEnglish fiction$y19th century$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aLiterature and science$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y19th century.
650 0 $aLiterature and medicine$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y19th century.
650 0 $aMind and body in literature.
650 0 $aPhysiology in literature.
650 0 $aGothic revival (Literature)$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y19th century.
650 0 $aNeurosciences$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y19th century.
650 7 $aLITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.$2bisacsh
856 42 $3Cover image$uhttp://assets.cambridge.org/97811070/10017/cover/9781107010017.jpg
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1117/2011038185-b.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1117/2011038185-d.html
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1117/2011038185-t.html