Anne Stiles, Popular Fiction and Brain Science in the Late Nineteenth Century
Late-Victorian Gothic romances often dealt with allusions and references to neurology, and even featured mad scientists experimenting on patients and turning them into automata they could control like expert puppet-masters. The connections between late-Victorian popular literature and neurological...
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| الحاوية / القاعدة: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/miranda, |
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| التنسيق: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| اللغة: | Anglais |
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Miranda
2013
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| الوصول للمادة أونلاين: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| الملخص: | Late-Victorian Gothic romances often dealt with allusions and references to neurology, and even featured mad scientists experimenting on patients and turning them into automata they could control like expert puppet-masters. The connections between late-Victorian popular literature and neurological research were, indeed, strong, as Anne Stiles’s Popular Fiction and Brain Science in the Late Nineteenth Century makes explicit. Gothic romances, such as those by Robert Louis Stevenson, Bram Stoke... |
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