Nervous fictions literary form and the Enlightenment origins of neuroscience
Personifying the Brain: Thomas Willis's Neuroscience -- Nervous Figures: Cavendish's 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 Hypocho...
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Charlottesville ; London
University of Virginia Press
2020
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Personifying the Brain: Thomas Willis's Neuroscience -- Nervous Figures: Cavendish's 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 |
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| Beschreibung: | xi, 311 Seiten 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780813944784 978-0-8139-4478-4 9780813944777 978-0-8139-4477-7 |