British Romanticism and the Science of the Mind.
Material type: TextSeries: Cambridge Studies in RomanticismPublisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2001Copyright date: ©2001Description: 1 online resource (268 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780511153099Subject(s): English literature--19th century--History and criticismGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: British Romanticism and the Science of the MindDDC classification: 820.9007 LOC classification: PR468.S34 R53 2001Online resources: Click to ViewCover -- Half-title -- Series-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- CHAPTER ONE Introduction: neural Romanticism -- THE RETURN OF THE BRAIN-MIND -- ROMANTICISM IN A NEUROSCIENTIFIC CONTEXT -- A CHAOS OF ASSOCIATION: COLERIDGE, HARTLEY, AND THE CORPOREAL MIND -- ERASMUS DARWIN AND THE ORGANIC MIND -- CABANIS: SENSIBILITY AND THE EMBODIED MIND -- GALL'S ORGANOLOGY -- RADICAL BRAIN SCIENCE: FROM GALL TO LAWRENCE -- BELL'S NEW ANATOMY AND THE BODILY CREATION OF MIND -- ROMANTIC NEUROSCIENCE, NEURAL ROMANTICISM -- CHAPTER TWO Coleridge and the new unconscious -- THE DREAMING BODY -- POETRY AND THE UNWILLING SUSPENSION OF CONSCIOUSNESS -- XANADU AND THE NEW UNCONSCIOUS -- CHAPTER THREE A beating mind: Wordsworth's poetics and the "science of feelings" -- ORGANIC SENSIBILITY -- FROM LOCKE TO SWEETSER -- THE BEST PART OF LANGUAGE -- CHAPTER FOUR Of heartache and head injury: minds, brains, and the subject of Persuasion -- DUCTILE MINDS, ORGANICAL BRAINS -- NERVOUS SENSIBILITY IN AUSTEN'S LATE STYLE -- TEMPERAMENTAL SUBJECTS -- CHAPTER FIVE Keats and the glories of the brain -- THE SPECTACULAR BRAIN -- EMBODYING PSYCHE -- THE POETRY OF INTEROCEPTION -- PASSIONATE BREATH, STRENUOUS TONGUE, A PALATE FINE -- DROWS'D WITH THE FUME OF POPPIES -- THE NAKED BRAIN -- CHAPTER SIX Embodied universalism, Romantic discourse, and the anthropological imagination -- THOUGHT WITHOUT LANGUAGE -- TALES TOLD OF IDIOTS -- ROMANTIC DISCOURSE AND RACIAL SCIENCE -- CHAPTER SEVEN Epilogue -- Notes -- PREFACE -- 1 INTRODUCTION: NEURAL ROMANTICISM -- 2 COLERIDGE AND THE NEW UNCONSCIOUS -- 3 A BEATING MIND: WORDSWORTH'S POETICS AND THE "SCIENCE OF FEELINGS -- 4 OF HEARTACHE AND HEAD INJURY: MINDS, BRAINS, AND THE SUBJECT OF PERSUASION -- 5 KEATS AND THE GLORIES OF THE BRAIN.
6 EMBODIED UNIVERSALISM, ROMANTIC DISCOURSE, AND THE ANTHROPOLOGICAL IMAGINATION -- EPILOGUE -- Bibliography -- Index.
Examines the affinities between the British Romantic movement and the early history of neuroscience.
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