Popular fiction and brain science in the late nineteenth century

Publication Data

• Title Popular fiction and brain science in the late nineteenth century
• Author Anne Stiles
• Publisher Cambridge University Press
• Publication date 2012
• Publication location Cambridge
• Language English

Contents

Cerebral localization and the late Victorian Gothic romance
Robert Louis Stevenson's Jekyll and Hyde and the double brain
Bram Stoker's Dracula and cerebral automatism
Photographic memory in the works of Grant Allen
H. G. Wells and the evolution of the mad scientist
Marie Corelli and the neuron.

Topics

• Gothic fiction (Literary genre), English :: History and criticism
• Neurosciences and the arts
• Brain :: Research :: Great Britain :: History :: 19th century
• Gothic revival (Literature) :: Great Britain :: History :: 19th century
• Literature and science :: Great Britain :: History :: 19th century
• Literature and medicine :: Great Britain :: History :: 19th century
• Neurosciences :: Great Britain :: History :: 19th century
• Mind and body in literature
• Physiology in literature
• English fiction :: 19th century :: History and criticism

Popular fiction and brain science in the late nineteenth century by Anne Stiles. ISBN 9781107010017. Published by Cambridge University Press in 2012. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.