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British romanticism science of mind

By Alan Richardson

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2001
ISBN
0521781914, 9780521781916, 9780511012051
LCC
PR468.S34 R53 2001
Open Library ID
OL6789766M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2259542 bytes)
Series
Cambridge Studies in Romanticism
Pages
268\268
Scanned
yes
Time added
2010-02-18 13:16:04

Description

In this provocative and original study, Alan Richardson examines an entire range of intellectual, cultural, and ideological points of contact between British Romantic literary writing and the pioneering brain science of the time. Poets such as Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Keats, and novelists such as Jane Austen and Mary Shelley, are shown to have shared a surprising extent of common ground with pioneering brain scientists including Erasmus Darwin and F. J. Gall. It demonstrates the value for literary and cultural history of learning from recent work in neuroscience and cognitive science.

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