The Complicity of Friends offers an entirely original perspective within which to appreciate four eminent Victorians: Herbert Spencer, George Eliot, G. H. Lewes, and John Hughlings-Jackson. For the first time, I clarify the nature of Spencer's illness and demonstrate its repercussions in the lives and work of his three gifted friends.
The Complicity of Friends offers an entirely original perspective within which to appreciate four eminent Victorians: Herbert Spencer, George Eliot, G. H. Lewes, and John Hughlings-Jackson. For the first time, I clarify the nature of Spencer's illness and demonstrate its repercussions in the lives and work of his three gifted friends.
Contents Preface Abbreviations 1 Introduction: Two Secrets-or One? Phase One: What Eliot Saw, What Spencer Said 2 "The Lifted Veil," A: George Eliot Stolen! 3 "The Lifted Veil," B: Revenge by Diagnosis 4 A Fitful Reader 5 The Dagger Sheathed, Partly Phase Two: What the Philosopher Wrote (with a Friend's Rejoinder) 6 Electricity and the Man 7 The Mystery of the Two Rooms 8 Enter Hughlings-Jackson 9 A Good Strong Terrible Vision Phase Three: What the Doctor Heard 10 Lewes the Fixer 11 Who Was Hughlings-Jackson's "Educated Patient"? 12 Ghost Stories Phase Four: The Exchange of Prisoners 13 The Man between the Fits 14 Eliot Does Mischief (Again) 15 Life after the Georges 16 Conclusion: The Brain is Not the Mind Appendix 1: Many Snapshots, One Secretive Patient Appendix 2: Did Spencer Have Autosomal Dominant Partial Epilepsy with Auditory Features? Notes Acknowledgments List of Works Cited Index
Contents Preface Abbreviations 1 Introduction: Two Secrets-or One? Phase One: What Eliot Saw, What Spencer Said 2 "The Lifted Veil," A: George Eliot Stolen! 3 "The Lifted Veil," B: Revenge by Diagnosis 4 A Fitful Reader 5 The Dagger Sheathed, Partly Phase Two: What the Philosopher Wrote (with a Friend's Rejoinder) 6 Electricity and the Man 7 The Mystery of the Two Rooms 8 Enter Hughlings-Jackson 9 A Good Strong Terrible Vision Phase Three: What the Doctor Heard 10 Lewes the Fixer 11 Who Was Hughlings-Jackson's "Educated Patient"? 12 Ghost Stories Phase Four: The Exchange of Prisoners 13 The Man between the Fits 14 Eliot Does Mischief (Again) 15 Life after the Georges 16 Conclusion: The Brain is Not the Mind Appendix 1: Many Snapshots, One Secretive Patient Appendix 2: Did Spencer Have Autosomal Dominant Partial Epilepsy with Auditory Features? Notes Acknowledgments List of Works Cited Index
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