Popular Fiction and Brain Science in the Late Nineteenth Century.

STILES, ANNE.

ISBN 10: 0521772192 / ISBN 13: 9780521772198

Published by Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,, 2012

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Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture, 78] Contents: Introduction: cerebral localization and the late Victorian Gothic romance; Part I. Reactionaries: 1. Robert Louis Stevenson's Jekyll and Hyde and the double brain; 2. Bram Stoker's Dracula and cerebral automatism; Part II. Materialists: 3. Photographic memory in the works of Grant Allen; Part III. Visionaries: 4. H. G. Wells and the evolution of the mad scientist; 5. Marie Corelli and the neuron; Epilogue; Looking forward. 230 x 150 mm. xi, 255 pp. [ISBN: 978-0521772198] Hardbound. A fine bright copy free from ownership inscriptions in like dustwrapper.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Popular Fiction and Brain Science in the Late Nineteenth Century.
• Publisher: Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
• Publication Date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0521772192
• ISBN 13: 9780521772198
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • English Literature: Victorian

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Synopsis

This ambitious study offers a radical reassessment of one of the most important concepts of the Romantic period--the imagination. In contrast to traditional accounts, John Whale locates the Romantic imagination within the period's lively and often antagonistic polemics on aesthetics and politics, focusing in particular on British responses to the French Revolution and the ideology of utilitarianism. Through detailed analysis of key texts by Burke, Paine, Wollstonecraft, Bentham, Hazlitt, Cobbett and Coleridge, this book seeks to restore the role of imagination as a more positive force within cultural critique.

Review

"Imagination Under Pressure is a great rejoinder to such difficulties in discussing the imagination" Eighteenth-Century Life

"elegantly-writeen and lucid" The Wordsworth Circle