Popular fiction and brain science in the late nineteenth century

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Popular fiction and brain science in the late nineteenth century

Anne Stiles

(Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture, 78)

Cambridge University Press, 2012

  • : hardback

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Bibliography: p. 232-247

Includes index

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内容説明

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 Dr Jekyll and Mr 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.

目次

  • 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.

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