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Nervous Fictions : Literary Form and the Enlightenment Origins of Neuroscience /

"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"--

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Keiser, Jess, 1984- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2020.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a 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. 
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