Popular Fiction and Brain Science in the Late Nineteenth Century

Anne (Professor, St Louis University, Missouri) Stiles

Cambridge University Press, 2014

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Explores how Gothic romances engaged with late Victorian cognitive science. The book explains why popular novels like Dracula and Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde expressed fears and visionary possibilities suggested by contemporary neurological research. This topic will interest literary scholars, historians of science and fans of Gothic literature more generally.

ISBN-13
9781107442467
ISBN-10
110744246X
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2014
Publication date
2014-08-21
Pages
274
Dimensions
152x230x15
Weight
398