British Romanticism and the science of the mind - Richardson, Alan (Cambridge University Press, 2001)
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-236) and index
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
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
Keywords: Geschichte 1793-1825; Geschichte 1800-1900; Geschichte 1798-1832; Online-Publikation; Letterkunde; Engels; Romantiek; Neurowetenschappen; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literatur; Neurologie; Romantik; Englisch; Geschichte; English literature / 19th century / History and criticism; Literature and science / Great Britain / History / 19th century; Brain / Research / Great Britain / History / 19th century; Neurosciences / Great Britain / History / 19th century; Romanticism / Great Britain; Mind and body in literature; Psychology in literature; Großbritannien