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BL
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982190
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b736560
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| Title & Author
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Neurology and literature, 1860-1920 /\ edited by Anne Stiles.
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| Publication Statement
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Basingstoke [England] ;New York :: Palgrave Macmillan,, 2007.
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| Series Statement
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Palgrave studies in nineteenth-century writing and culture
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x, 229 pages :: illustrations, portraits ;; 23 cm
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| ISBN
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0230287883
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: 0230520944
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: 9780230287884
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: 9780230520943
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-220) and index.
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| Contents
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List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- Anne Stiles -- Part I: Catalysts -- 1. Howled Out of the Country: Wilkie Collins and H.G. Wells Retry David Ferrier -- Laura Otis -- 2. Our Lady of Darkness: Decadent Arts and the Magnetic Sleep of Magdeleine G -- Don LaCoss -- Part II: Diagnostic Categories -- 3. How do I Look? Dysmorphophobia and Obsession at the Fin de Siecle -- Andrew Mangham -- 4. Doctor Zay and Dr. Mitchell: Elizabeth Stuart Phelps's -- Feminist Response to Mainstream Neurology -- Kristine Swenson -- Part III: Sex and the Brain -- 5. Trauma and Sexual Inversion, circa 1885: Oliver Wendell Holmes's A Mortal -- Antipathy and Maladies of Representation -- Randall Knoper -- 6. Singing the Body Electric: Nervous Music and Sexuality in Fin-de-Siecle Literature -- James Kennaway -- Part IV: The Traumatized Brain -- 7. Emergent Theories of Victorian Mind Shock: From War and Railway Accident to Nerves, Electricity and Emotion -- Jill Matus -- 8. Medical and Literary Discourses of Trauma in the Age of the American Civil War -- Mark Micale.
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| Abstract
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The essays in this collection demonstrate how late-Victorian and Edwardian neurology and fiction shared common philosophical concerns and rhetorical strategies.
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English literature-- 19th century-- History and criticism.
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English literature-- 20th century-- History and criticism.
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Literature and science-- Great Britain-- History-- 19th century.
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Literature and science-- Great Britain-- History-- 20th century.
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Mind and body in literature.
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Neurosciences-- Great Britain-- History-- 19th century.
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Neurosciences-- Great Britain-- History-- 20th century.
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Englisch
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English literature.
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Literatur
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Literature and science.
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Mind and body in literature.
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Neurosciences.
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Neurowissenschaften
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Medicine in Literature.
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History, 19th Century.
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History, 20th Century.
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Nervous System Diseases-- history.
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Neurology-- history.
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United Kingdom.
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Englisch.
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Great Britain.
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| Dewey Classification
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820.9/356
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| LC Classification
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PR468.S34N48 2007
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| NLM classification
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WZ 330N4937 2007
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HL 1031rvk
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HL 1101rvk
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| Added Entry
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Stiles, Anne,1975-
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