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" Nervous acts : "
by George S. Rousseau.
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BL
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1029618
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b783988
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| Main Entry
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Rousseau, G. S., (George Sebastian)
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Nervous acts : : essays on literature, culture, and sensibility /\ by George S. Rousseau.
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Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ;New York :: Palgrave Macmillan,, 2004.
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xii, 395 pages ;; 23 cm
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1403934533
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: 1403934541
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: 9781403934536
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: 9781403934543
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 350-389) and index.
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| Contents
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"Originated neurology" : nerves, spirits, and fibers, 1969-2004 -- Science and the discovery of the imagination (1969) -- Pineapples, pregnancy, and pica : nerves and the "mother's imagination" (1972) -- Nerves and racism : Le Cat's neurology of racism (1973) -- Nerves, spirits, and fibres : toward the origins of sensibility (1975) -- Nerves and nymphomania : Bienville and female sensibility (1982) -- Discourses of the nerve (1989) -- Towards a semiotics of the nerve (1991) -- "Strange pathology" : nerves and the hysteria diagnosis in early modern Europe (1993).
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"Between 1965 and 2000 George Rousseau wrote a series of landmark essays about the role of the nervous system in the rise of literature and sensibility that altered the landscape of eighteenth-century studies. Now these essays have been collected for the first time. The arguments challenge thinking about the Enlightenment and reconfigure the contexts of European sensibility. Since their original publication much criticism and scholarship has been produced that engages, adopts, and expands on Rousseau's discussions. The new introductory essay surveys this fascinating cultural profile from the ancients to the moderns, and provides a personal account of what the author's quest for the past has entailed.
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The epilogue engages with the critical reception of the original essays and glances at the future of nerves: ethically, morally, and in the light of the stresses of modern life."--Jacket.
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Enlightenment.
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Literature and medicine.
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Literature, Modern-- History and criticism.
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Nervous system.
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Littérature et médecine.
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Littérature-- Histoire et critique.
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Siècle des lumières.
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Système nerveux.
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Enlightenment.
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Hirnfunktion
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Literatur
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Literature and medicine.
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Literature, Modern.
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Nervensystem
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Nervous system.
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Medicine in Literature.
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Nervous System Physiological Phenomena.
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Cultuur.
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Emoties.
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Letterkunde.
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Verlichting (cultuurgeschiedenis)
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Zenuwstelsel.
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Emotions.
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History, 18th Century.
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Nervous System Diseases.
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Europe.
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| Dewey Classification
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809/.933561
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2 22
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| LC Classification
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PN56.M38R68 2004
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2005 C-766
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WZ 330R864n 2004
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8ssgn
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HG 130rvk
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HG 431rvk
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I109.5clc
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