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"[An] important book [that] remains valuable for its literary readings and its tour d'horizon of the materialist tradition in romantic medicine." Neil Vickers, University College, London, Studies in Romanticism
"Alan Richardson's foray into the relationship between the `brain science' and literature of the Romantic period is a welcome contribution to the recent wave of writings on Romantic medicine and literature." Bulletin of the History of Medicine
"Richardsonas treatment of a hitherto neglected phase of cultural history should prove of interest to specialists in Romanticism at the graduate level and above." Choice
"The book is richly illustrated with nineteenth-century engravings of the anatomy of the brain and nervous system and contains extensive notes and bibliographic citations. It is as readable and exciting as it is careful, thought provoking and intelligent." Isis
"In his latest book, Richardson has begun research that will keep scholars busy for years to come. He has also offered literary interpretations that will change the way we think about words like `brain,' `mind,' `sensation,' and `thought' when we read them in Romantic and post-Romantic texts. His argument is clear, his evidence convincing, his writing graceful and compelling. In short, Richardson has made an extremely important contribution to Romantic studies." The Wordsworth Circle
"British Romanticism and the Science of the Mind promises to become a foundation text for the emerging Romanticist subdiscipline of discourse, culture, and corporeality...The book will be prized for the freshness and sanity of its approach as well as its illuminating and rigorous critical engagement with received opinion." Nineteenth-Century Literature
"Alan Richardson has written a serious, speculative, and provocative book on a very large subject." European Romantic Review
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In this provocative and original study, Alan Richardson examines an entire range of intellectual, cultural, and ideological points of contact between British Romantic literary writing and the pioneering brain science of the time. Poets such as Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Keats, and novelists such as Jane Austen and Mary Shelley, are shown to have shared a surprising extent of common ground with pioneering brain scientists including Erasmus Darwin and F. J. Gall. It demonstrates the value for literary and cultural history of learning from recent work in neuroscience and cognitive science.
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"[An] important book [that] remains valuable for its literary readings and its tour d'horizon of the materialist tradition in romantic medicine." Neil Vickers, University College, London, Studies in Romanticism
"Alan Richardson's foray into the relationship between the `brain science' and literature of the Romantic period is a welcome contribution to the recent wave of writings on Romantic medicine and literature." Bulletin of the History of Medicine
"Richardsonas treatment of a hitherto neglected phase of cultural history should prove of interest to specialists in Romanticism at the graduate level and above." Choice
"The book is richly illustrated with nineteenth-century engravings of the anatomy of the brain and nervous system and contains extensive notes and bibliographic citations. It is as readable and exciting as it is careful, thought provoking and intelligent." Isis
"In his latest book, Richardson has begun research that will keep scholars busy for years to come. He has also offered literary interpretations that will change the way we think about words like `brain,' `mind,' `sensation,' and `thought' when we read them in Romantic and post-Romantic texts. His argument is clear, his evidence convincing, his writing graceful and compelling. In short, Richardson has made an extremely important contribution to Romantic studies." The Wordsworth Circle
"British Romanticism and the Science of the Mind promises to become a foundation text for the emerging Romanticist subdiscipline of discourse, culture, and corporeality...The book will be prized for the freshness and sanity of its approach as well as its illuminating and rigorous critical engagement with received opinion." Nineteenth-Century Literature
"Alan Richardson has written a serious, speculative, and provocative book on a very large subject." European Romantic Review
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In this provocative and original study, Alan Richardson examines an entire range of intellectual, cultural, and ideological points of contact between British Romantic literary writing and the pioneering brain science of the time. Poets such as Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Keats, and novelists such as Jane Austen and Mary Shelley, are shown to have shared a surprising extent of common ground with pioneering brain scientists including Erasmus Darwin and F. J. Gall. It demonstrates the value for literary and cultural history of learning from recent work in neuroscience and cognitive science.
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embodied universalism, new biological psychologies, embodied psychologies, contemporary brain science, beating mind, unconscious mental life, organic sensibility, new physiology, medullary substance, idiot boy, natural cries, immaterial principle, radical science Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Kubla Khan, Kukla Khan, Erasmus Darwin, John Hunter, Betty Bodle, Edinburgh Review, Royal Society, United Hospitals, Astley Cooper, Charles Bell, Philosophical Transactions, The Pains of Sleep, Thomas Reid, William Lawrence, Gastric Life, George Combe, Henry Crabb Robinson, Humphry Davy, Joanna Baillie, John Keats, Marilyn Butler, Mark Johnson, Matthew Baillie, Royal College of Surgeons New!
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This is a book about Romantic literary culture and the brain in Great Britain, from the 1790s to around 1830. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
embodied universalism, new biological psychologies, embodied psychologies, contemporary brain science, beating mind, unconscious mental life, organic sensibility, new physiology, medullary substance, idiot boy, natural cries, immaterial principle, radical science Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Kubla Khan, Kukla Khan, Erasmus Darwin, John Hunter, Betty Bodle, Edinburgh Review, Royal Society, United Hospitals, Astley Cooper, Charles Bell, Philosophical Transactions, The Pains of Sleep, Thomas Reid, William Lawrence, Gastric Life, George Combe, Henry Crabb Robinson, Humphry Davy, Joanna Baillie, John Keats, Marilyn Butler, Mark Johnson, Matthew Baillie, Royal College of Surgeons New!
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- Wordsworth and the Enlightenment: Nature, Man, and Society in the Experimental Poetry by Alan Bewell on 6 pages
- Erasmus Darwin and the Romantic Poets by Desmond King-Hele on 6 pages
- Black Athena by Martin Bernal on 4 pages
- Poetical Works: Volume 5 (Oxford English Texts) by William Wordsworth on 4 pages
- Jane Austen: A Celebration by Jane Austen Society on 4 pages
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- Plagiarism and Literary Property in the Romantic Period (Material Texts) by Tilar J. Mazzeo on page 35, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Victorian Literary Mesmerism (Costerus NS 160) by Martin Willis on page 48, and Back Matter
- The Politics of Nature: William Wordsworth and Some Contemporaries, Second Edition by Nicholas Roe in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Cambridge Companion to Shelley (Cambridge Companions to Literature) by Timothy Morton on page 124, and page 141
- City of Health, Fields of Disease: Revolutions in the Poetry, Medicine, and Philosophy of Romanticism (The Nineteenth Century) by Martin Wallen in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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