Writing the Brain analyzes the intersections, overlaps, and cross pollutions between early brain science and literature between 1800 and 1880 in England and the United States. Many of the foundational insights of modern neuroscience were made during this period, but they have rarely received extended scholarly attention in literary studies. Author Stefan Schöberlein changes that by reading literary genres and neuroscientific discoveries in tandem, often with particular attention to technological similes and metaphors. It revisits canonical works (Whitman, Dickens, Poe) and presents newly…mehr
Writing the Brain analyzes the intersections, overlaps, and cross pollutions between early brain science and literature between 1800 and 1880 in England and the United States. Many of the foundational insights of modern neuroscience were made during this period, but they have rarely received extended scholarly attention in literary studies. Author Stefan Schöberlein changes that by reading literary genres and neuroscientific discoveries in tandem, often with particular attention to technological similes and metaphors. It revisits canonical works (Whitman, Dickens, Poe) and presents newly discovered periodical texts, often coupled with historical illustrations. The resulting study sketches out a new, transatlantic field of inquiry as well as a new corpus of texts for readers and scholars of the nineteenth century.
Stefan Schöberlein is Assistant Professor of English at Texas A&M University-Central Texas. He has edited Walt Whitman's New Orleans, co-edited the Oxford Handbook of Walt Whitman, and published literary translations into German. He has served as president of the Digital Americanists Society and is currently a contributing editor of the Walt Whitman Archive.
Inhaltsangabe
* Acknowledgements * The First Century of the Brain: An Introduction * Chapter 1. Nature's Mind and Mind's Nature: Romantic Cognition Between Harp and Atom * Harp-Strings * Mind-Strings * Mind-Matter * Mind-Atoms * Chapter 2. Split Brains, Doubled Minds: The Gothic's Bicameral Vision * The Sleepers * Dialoging the Self * Hemispheric Voices * Master-Minds * Chapter 3: Skulls and Society: Reading the Mind as a Multi-Organ Entity * Brain-Damage * Phrenology as Sociology * Phrenological Victorianism * Phrenological Americanism * Phrenology's Real * Chapter 4: Cranial Reconstruction: Racialized Brains and the Psychometric Real * Uncommon Minds * Great Brains * A Cranial Case Study * Realism as Psychometry * Chapter 5: Rattle-Brained: Insanity as Material Metacognition * You, Me, Brain * Metempsychosis as Metacognition * Insanity as Pop Culture * Psychosis as Metacognition * Chapter 6: The Telegraphed Brain: Wires as Proto-Neurons * Thoughts on Wires * Telegraphed Minds * Introspective Brain-Machines * Afterword * References * Index
* Acknowledgements * The First Century of the Brain: An Introduction * Chapter 1. Nature's Mind and Mind's Nature: Romantic Cognition Between Harp and Atom * Harp-Strings * Mind-Strings * Mind-Matter * Mind-Atoms * Chapter 2. Split Brains, Doubled Minds: The Gothic's Bicameral Vision * The Sleepers * Dialoging the Self * Hemispheric Voices * Master-Minds * Chapter 3: Skulls and Society: Reading the Mind as a Multi-Organ Entity * Brain-Damage * Phrenology as Sociology * Phrenological Victorianism * Phrenological Americanism * Phrenology's Real * Chapter 4: Cranial Reconstruction: Racialized Brains and the Psychometric Real * Uncommon Minds * Great Brains * A Cranial Case Study * Realism as Psychometry * Chapter 5: Rattle-Brained: Insanity as Material Metacognition * You, Me, Brain * Metempsychosis as Metacognition * Insanity as Pop Culture * Psychosis as Metacognition * Chapter 6: The Telegraphed Brain: Wires as Proto-Neurons * Thoughts on Wires * Telegraphed Minds * Introspective Brain-Machines * Afterword * References * Index
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