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Author Richardson, Alan, 1955-

Title British Romanticism and the science of the mind / Alan Richardson.

Publication Info. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001.

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Description 1 online resource (xx, 243 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Cambridge studies in Romanticism ; 47
Cambridge studies in Romanticism ; 47.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-236) and index.
Contents 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.
Summary 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.
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Subject English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
English literature.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Literature and science -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
Literature and science.
Great Britain.
History.
Brain -- Research -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
Brain -- Research.
Neurosciences -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
Neurosciences.
Romanticism -- Great Britain.
Romanticism.
Mind and body in literature.
Mind and body in literature.
Psychology in literature.
Psychology in literature.
Chronological Term Geschichte 1793-1825
1800 - 1899
Indexed Term Electronic books
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Online-Publikation.
Other Form: Print version: Richardson, Alan, 1955- British Romanticism and the science of the mind. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001 (DLC) 00050356
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