Randall Knoper

Literary Neurophysiology

Memory, Race, Sex, and Representation in U.S. Writing, 1860-1914

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The book investigates the relations between American literature of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and the sciences of the brain and the nervous system, showing how literary authors investigated, used, and challenged this emerging neurophysiology.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Dezember 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 635g
• ISBN-13: 9780192845504
• ISBN-10: 0192845500
• Artikelnr.: 63482188

Autorenporträt

Randall Knoper teaches at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and is chair of the Department of English. He is the author of Acting Naturally: Mark Twain in the Culture of Performance .

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction: Literature Confronts Physiological Psychology
1860 to 1911 * 1: American Literary Realism and Nervous "Reflexion" * 2: Memory
Materiality
Mental Telegraphy * 3: Vitality
Racial Creativity
and Biopolitics * 4: Nervous Shock
Sexual Inversion
and National Virility * 5: Psychophysics to Literary Experiments: Gertrude Stein and Neural Composition * 6: Reflex Redux-Will
Attention
Habit
Indeterminacy