Rousseau Nervous Acts

Essays on Literature, Culture and Sensibility
Erscheinungsjahr 2004
ISBN: 978-0-230-50515-5
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 395 Seiten, Web PDF

Reihe: Palgrave History Collection

These essays demonstrate the sweeping influence of the human nervous system on the rise of literature and sensibility in early modern Europe. The brain and nerves have usually been treated as narrow topics within the history of science and medicine. Now George Rousseau, an international authority on the relations of literature and medicine, demonstrates why a broader context is necessary. The nervous system was a crucial factor in the rise of recent civilization. More than any other body part, it holds the key to understanding how far back the strains and stresses of modern life - fatigue, depression, mental illness - extend.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rousseau, G.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements Introduction PART I: 'ORIGINATED NEUROLOGY': NERVES, SPIRITS, AND FIBRES, 1969-2004 Nerves and Neurons in Human Evolution Nerves and Selves in the Ancient World Early Modern Nerves 'Fire in the Soul': The Animal Spirits Gendered Bodies and 'Nerve Doctors' Passions, Emotions, Affections: Writing out the Nervous Sentiments The Nervous Style Nerves and Music: The Aesthetic Debates, 1740-1890 Nerves and 'Modern Life' 'Literary Nerves' and Evolutionary Biology Coda: Discursivity and the Pharmacological Future PART II: ESSAYS, 1969-1993 Science and the Discovery of the Imagination (1969) Pineapples, Pregnancy, and Pica: Nerves and the 'Mother's Imagination' (1972) Nerves and Racism: Le Cat's Neurology of Racism (1973) Nerves, Spirits and Fibres: Toward the Origins of Sensibility (1975) Nerves and Nymphomania: Bienville and Female Sensibility (1982) Discourses of the Nerve (1989) Towards a Semiotics of the Nerve (1991) 'Strange Pathology:' Nerves and the Hysteria Diagnosis in Early Modern Europe (1993) PART III: EPILOGUE Epilogue 2004 Bibliography Index

Über Autor(innen)

GEORGE S. ROUSSEAU is a Professor in the Modern History Research Unit at Oxford University and a Co-Director of the Oxford Centre for the History of Childhood. He has long been interested in the interface of culture and medicine and has written widely on the subject. His books include , , , , and .