ENGLISH

British Romanticism and the science of the mind

By Richardson , Alan

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2001
ISBN
null
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (3388328 bytes)
Series
Cambridge studies in Romanticism 47
Pages
(xx, 243 pages) : illustrations\268
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
Electronic books;Brain--Research--Great Britain--HIrishScottishWelsh;Literatur;Littérature anglaise--19e siècle--

Description

In this provocative and original study, 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 include Erasmus Darwin and F.J. Gall.;Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Illustrations; Preface; Abbreviations; CHAPTER ONE Introduction: neural Romanticism; CHAPTER TWO Coleridge and the new unconscious; CHAPTER THREE A beating mind: Wordsworth's poetics and the science of feelingsŽ; CHAPTER FOUR Of heartache and head injury: minds, brains, and the subject of Persuasion; CHAPTER FIVE Keats and the glories of the brain; CHAPTER SIX Embodied universalism, Romantic discourse, and the anthropological imagination; CHAPTER SEVEN Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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