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