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Author : Anne Stiles
Publisher :
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 21,16 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Brain
ISBN : 9781139217859
Examines how Gothic romances like Dracula and Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde expressed fears and visionary possibilities suggested by neurological research.
Author : Anne Stiles
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 33,16 MB
Release : 2011-12-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1139504908
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.
Author : John Holmes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 645 pages
File Size : 41,29 MB
Release : 2017-05-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1317042336
Tracing the continuities and trends in the complex relationship between literature and science in the long nineteenth century, this companion provides scholars with a comprehensive, authoritative and up-to-date foundation for research in this field. In intellectual, material and social terms, the transformation undergone by Western culture over the period was unprecedented. Many of these changes were grounded in the growth of science. Yet science was not a cultural monolith then any more than it is now, and its development was shaped by competing world views. To cover the full range of literary engagements with science in the nineteenth century, this companion consists of twenty-seven chapters by experts in the field, which explore crucial social and intellectual contexts for the interactions between literature and science, how science affected different genres of writing, and the importance of individual scientific disciplines and concepts within literary culture. Each chapter has its own extensive bibliography. The volume as a whole is rounded out with a synoptic introduction by the editors and an afterword by the eminent historian of nineteenth-century science Bernard Lightman.
Author : Anne Stiles
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 25,85 MB
Release : 2020-12-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1108906834
Positive thinking is good for you. You can become healthy, wealthy, and influential by using the power of your mind to attract what you desire. These kooky but commonplace ideas stem from a nineteenth-century new religious movement known as 'mind cure' or New Thought. Related to Mary Baker Eddy's Christian Science, New Thought was once a popular religious movement with hundreds of thousands of followers, and has since migrated into secular contexts such as contemporary psychotherapy, corporate culture, and entertainment. New Thought also pervades nineteenth- and early twentieth-century children's literature, including classics such as The Secret Garden, Anne of Green Gables, and A Little Princess. In this first book-length treatment of New Thought in Anglophone fiction, Anne Stiles explains how children's literature encouraged readers to accept New Thought ideas - especially psychological concepts such as the inner child - thereby ensuring the movement's survival into the present day.
Author : Will Abberley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 27,82 MB
Release : 2015-05-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1107101166
Explores how Victorian fiction and science imagined the evolution of language, from primordial noise to modern English.
Author : Richard Fallon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 26,39 MB
Release : 2021-11-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1108996167
When the term 'dinosaur' was coined in 1842, it referred to fragmentary British fossils. In subsequent decades, American discoveries—including Brontosaurus and Triceratops—proved that these so-called 'terrible lizards' were in fact hardly lizards at all. By the 1910s 'dinosaur' was a household word. Reimagining Dinosaurs in Late Victorian and Edwardian Literature approaches the hitherto unexplored fiction and popular journalism that made this scientific term a meaningful one to huge transatlantic readerships. Unlike previous scholars, who have focused on displays in American museums, Richard Fallon argues that literature was critical in turning these extinct creatures into cultural icons. Popular authors skilfully related dinosaurs to wider concerns about empire, progress, and faith; some of the most prominent, like Arthur Conan Doyle and Henry Neville Hutchinson, also disparaged elite scientists, undermining distinctions between scientific and imaginative writing. The rise of the dinosaurs thus accompanied fascinating transatlantic controversies about scientific authority.
Author : Dennis Denisoff
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 15,72 MB
Release : 2021-12-16
Category : Art
ISBN : 1108845975
Decadent Ecology illuminates the networks of nature, paganism, and desire in 19th- and early 20th-century decadent literature and art. Combining the environmental humanities with aesthetic, queer and literary theory, this study reveals the interplay of art, eco-paganism and science during the formation of modern ecological and evolutionary thought.
Author : Laurence Talairach
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 34,13 MB
Release : 2019-10-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1786834626
This books aims to tackle the relationship between literature/ the Gothic and anatomical culture in depth – research which has not been undertaken in great detail before. Gothic Remains provides close readings of Gothic texts and the issue of dissection not previously done. This study, although dealing with death/corpses and the Gothic like other studies, offers a new analysis on the history of medicine and the part played by anatomy in medical education and practice.
Author : Dennis Denisoff
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 714 pages
File Size : 10,73 MB
Release : 2019-11-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0429018177
The Routledge Companion to Victorian Literature offers 45 chapters by leading international scholars working with the most dynamic and influential political, cultural, and theoretical issues addressing Victorian literature today. Scholars and students will find this collection both useful and inspiring. Rigorously engaged with current scholarship that is both historically sensitive and theoretically informed, the Routledge Companion places the genres of the novel, poetry, and drama and issues of gender, social class, and race in conversation with subjects like ecology, colonialism, the Gothic, digital humanities, sexualities, disability, material culture, and animal studies. This guide is aimed at scholars who want to know the most significant critical approaches in Victorian studies, often written by the very scholars who helped found those fields. It addresses major theoretical movements such as narrative theory, formalism, historicism, and economic theory, as well as Victorian models of subjects such as anthropology, cognitive science, and religion. With its lists of key works, rich cross-referencing, extensive bibliographies, and explications of scholarly trajectories, the book is a crucial resource for graduate students and advanced undergraduates, while offering invaluable support to more seasoned scholars.
Author : Gregory Vargo
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 13,74 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1107197856
Explores the journalism and fiction appearing in the early Victorian working-class periodical press and its influence on mainstream literature.