TY  - BOOK
AU  - Stiles,Anne
TI  - Popular fiction and brain science in the late nineteenth century
T2  - Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture
SN  - 9781107010017 (hbk.)
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Cambridge, U. K.
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Gothic fiction (Literary genre), English
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Neurosciences and the arts
KW  - Brain
KW  - Research
KW  - United Kingdom
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Gothic revival (Literature)
KW  - Literature and science
KW  - Literature and medicine
KW  - United Kindom
KW  - Neurosciences
KW  - Mind and body in literature
KW  - Physiology in literature
KW  - English fiction
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 232-247) and index
N2  - 'In the 1860s and 1870s, leading neurologists used animal experimentation to establish that discrete sections of the brain regulate specific mental and physical functions. These discoveries had immediate medical benefits: David Ferrier's detailed cortical maps, for example, saved lives by helping surgeons locate brain tumors and haemorrhages without first opening up the skull. These experiments both incited controversy and stimulated creative thought, because they challenged the possibility of an extra-corporeal soul. This book examines the cultural impact of neurological experiments on late Victorian Gothic romances by Robert Louis Stevenson, Bram Stoker, H. G. Wells and others. Novels like Dracula and Jekyll and Hyde expressed the deep-seated fears and visionary possibilities suggested by cerebral localization research and offered a corrective to the linearity and objectivity of late Victorian neurology'--
ER  -