Verfasst von:	Keiser, Jess [VerfasserIn]
Titel:	Nervous fictions
Titelzusatz:	literary form and the enlightenment origins of neuroscience
Verf.angabe:	Jess Keiser
Verlagsort:	Charlottesville ; London
Verlag:	University of Virginia Press
Jahr:	2020
Umfang:	XI, 311 Seiten
Fussnoten:	Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN:	978-0-8139-4477-7
	978-0-8139-4479-1
	978-0-8139-4478-4
Abstract:	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.
	"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"--
URL:	Inhaltsverzeichnis: http://www.gbv.de/dms/bowker/toc/9780813944777.pdf
Schlagwörter:	(s)Englisch    / (s)Literatur    / (s)Naturwissenschaften <Motiv>
Sprache:	eng
Bibliogr. Hinweis:	Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: Keiser, Jess, 1984 - : Nervous fictions. - Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2020. - Online-Ressource
RVK-Notation:	EC 5410
K10plus-PPN:	169974680X