Popular fiction and brain science in the late nineteenth century / Anne Stiles.

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Stiles, Anne, 1975-

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 78.Publication details: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, ©2012.Description: 1 online resourceContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781139224369
1139224360
9780511844461
0511844468
9781139220934
1139220934
1280485124
9781280485121

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Popular fiction and brain science in the late nineteenth century.DDC classification:

823/.0872909 23

LOC classification:

PR878.T3 S75 2012eb

NLM classification:

2014 I-238
WZ 330

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LIT004120
HL 1031

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Contents:

Cerebral localization and the late Victorian Gothic romance -- Robert Louis Stevenson's Jekyll and Hyde and the double brain -- Bram Stoker's Dracula and cerebral automatism -- Photographic memory in the works of Grant Allen -- H.G. Wells and the evolution of the mad scientist -- Marie Corelli and the neuron.

Summary: "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"-- Provided by publisher

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"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"-- Provided by publisher