Neurology and Literature, 1860-1920

This collection demonstrates how late-Victorian and Edwardian neurology and fiction shared common philosophical concerns and rhetorical strategies. Between 1860 and 1920 witnessed unprecedented interdisciplinary collaboration between scientists and artists, finding common ground in the prevailing intellectual climate of biological determinism.

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction; A.Stiles PART I: CATALYSTS Howled Out of the Country: Wilkie Collins and H.G. Wells Retry David Ferrier; L.Otis Our Lady of Darkness: Decadent Arts and the Magnetic Sleep of Magdeleine G.; D.LaCoss PART II: DIAGNOSTIC CATEGORIES How Do I Look? Dysmorphophobia and Obsession at the Fin de Siècle; A.Mangham Doctor Zay and Dr. Mitchell: Elizabeth Stuart Phelps''s Feminist Response to Mainstream Neurology; K.Swenson PART III: SEX AND THE BRAIN Trauma and Sexual Inversion, circa 1885: Dr Holmes''s A Mortal Antipathy and Maladies of Representation; R.Knoper Singing the Body Electric: Nervous Music and Sexuality in Fin-de-Siècle Literature; J.Kennaway PART IV: THE TRAUMATIZED BRAIN Emergent Theories of Victorian Mind Shock: From War and Railway Accident to Nerves, Electricity and Emotion; J.Matus Medical and Literary Discourses of Trauma in the Age of the American Civil War; M.Micale Works Cited Index