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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: subtle knot
    sub title: early modern English literature and the birth of neuroscience
  name:
    name part: Habinek, Lianne
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: quc
    date issued: 2018
    copyright date: 2018
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xv, 283 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  abstract: In the early modern period, poetic form underpinned and influenced scientific progress. The language and imagery of seventeenth-century writers and natural philosophers reveal how the age-old struggle between body and soul led to the brain's emergence as a curiosity in its own right. Investigating the intersection of the humanities and sciences in the works of authors ranging from William Shakespeare and John Donne to William Harvey, Margaret Cavendish and Johann Remmelin, Lianne Habinek tells how early modernity came to view the brain not simply as grey matter, but as a wealth of other wondrous possibilities, a book in which to read the soul's writing, a black box to be violently unlocked, a womb to nourish intellectual conception, a creative engine, a subtle knot that traps the soul and thereby makes us human. For seventeenth century thinkers, she argues, these comparisons were not simply casual metaphors, but integral to early ideas about brain function. Demonstrating how the disparate fields of neuroscientific history and literary studies converged, The Subtle Knot weaves the narrative of how the mind came to be identified with the brain.
  table of contents: Introduction -- Untying the subtle knot : anatomical metaphor and the case of the Rete Mirabile -- Altered states : Hamlet and early modern head trauma -- Labour pains : William Harvey and the travails of conception -- The mechanics of reproduction in the art of Cavendish -- The bookish brain : Moxon, Willis, and the transformation of flap anatomy -- Coda : the brain of Dr Deijman.
  note: Lianne Habinek.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: e-uk---
  subject:
    topic: Neurosciences and the humanities
  subject:
    topic: Science in literature
  subject:
    topic: Mind and body in literature
  subject:
    topic: Medicine in literature
  subject:
    topic: English literature
    temporal: Early modern, 1500-1700
    topic: History and criticism
  classification: PR408.S34 H33 2018
  classification: 820.9/356109031
  identifier: 9780773553187
  identifier: 0773553185
  identifier: 9780773554290
  identifier: 9780773554306
  identifier: 2018411792
  record info:
    record content source: NLC
    record creation date: 171201
    record change date: 20190718165235.0
    record identifier: in00004078455
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng