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1 online resource |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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"In the early modern period, poetic form underpinned and influenced scientific progress. The language and imagery of seventeenth-century writers and natural philosophers reveal how the age-old struggle between body and soul led to the brain's emergence as a curiosity in its own right. Investigating the intersection of the humanities and sciences in the works of authors ranging from William Shakespeare and John Donne to William Harvey, Margaret Cavendish, and Johann Remmelin, Lianne Habinek tells how early modernity came to view the brain not simply as grey matter, but as a wealth of other wondrous possibilities - a book in which to read the soul's writing, a black box to be violently unlocked, a womb to nourish intellectual conception, a creative engine, a subtle knot that traps the soul and thereby makes us human. For seventeenth-century thinkers, she argues, these comparisons were not simply casual metaphors, but integral to early ideas about brain function. Demonstrating how the disparate fields of neuroscientific history and literary studies converged, The Subtle Knot weaves the narrative of how the mind came to be identified with the brain."-- Provided by publisher. |
| Contents |
Cover; the SUBTLE KNOT; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; FIGURES; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; ONE Untying the Subtle Knot: Anatomical Metaphor and the Case of the Rete Mirabile; TWO Altered States: Hamlet and Early Modern Head Trauma; THREE Labour Pains: William Harvey and the Travails of Conception; FOUR The Mechanics of Reproduction in the Art of Cavendish; FIVE The Bookish Brain: Moxon, Willis, and the Transformation of Flap Anatomy; CODA The Brain of Dr Deijman; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX. |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Neurosciences and the humanities.
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Neurosciences and the humanities. |
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Science in literature.
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Science in literature. |
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Mind and body in literature.
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Mind and body in literature. |
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Medicine in literature.
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Medicine in literature. |
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English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism.
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1500-1700 |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Print version: Habinek, Lianne. Subtle knot. Montreal ; Kingson ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2018] 0773553185 9780773553187 (DLC) 2018411792 (OCoLC)1013524707 |
| ISBN |
9780773554290 (electronic book) |
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0773554297 (electronic book) |
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9780773554306 |
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0773554300 |
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9780773553187 |
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