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ISBN-10 : 0197693695
ISBN-13 : 9780197693698
Author: Stefan Schöberlein
In the nineteenth century, American and British culture experienced an explosion of interest in writings about the brain. The years between 1800 and 1880 are often described as the emergence of modern neuroscience, with new areas of the brain being discovered and named. Naming was quickly followed by a drive to hypothesize functioning, a process that suggested thinking itself may be a mere physiological act. In Writing the Brain, Stefan Schöberlein tracks how literature encountered such novel, scientific theories of cognition-and how it, in turn, shaped scientific thinking.Before the era of modern psychology, a heterogeneous group of alienists, self-help gurus, and anatomists proposed that the structure of the brain could be used to explain how the mind worked. Suddenly, nineteenth-century readers and writers had to contend with the idea that qualities once ascribed to disembodied souls may arise from a mere lump of cranial matter.
Writing the Brain: Material Minds and Literature, 1800-1880 1st Table of contents:
1. Nature’s Mind and Mind’s Nature: Romantic Cognition Between Harp and Atom
Harp Strings
Mind-Strings
Mind-Matter
Mind-Atoms
2. Split Brains, Doubled Minds: The Gothic’s Bicameral Vision
The Sleepers
Dialoging the Self
Hemispheric Voices
Master-Minds
3. Skulls and Society: Reading the Mind as a Multi-Organ Entity
Brain Damage
Phrenology as Sociology
Phrenological Victorianism
Phrenological Americanism
Phrenology’s Real
4. Cranial Reconstruction: Racialized Brains and the Psychometric Real
Uncommon Minds
Great Brains
A Cranial Case Study
Realism as Psychometry
5. Rattle-Brained: Insanity as Material Metacognition
You, Me, Brain
Metempsychosis as Metacognition
Insanity as Pop Culture
Psychosis as Metacognition
6. The Telegraphed Brain: Wires as Proto-Neurons
Thoughts on Wires
Telegraphed Minds
Introspective Brain-Machines
Afterword
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