Literary neurophysiology : memory, race, sex, and representation in U.S. writing, 1860-1914 /

Investigating the relations between American literature of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and the sciences of the brain and the nervous system, this volume shows how literary authors investigated, used and challenged this emerging neurophysiology.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Knoper, Randall K., 1953- (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2021.
Edition:	First edition.
Series:	Oxford studies in American literary history.
Subjects:	American literature > 19th century > History and criticism. American literature > 20th century > History and criticism. Materialism. Race in literature. Sex in literature. Littérature américaine > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique. Littérature américaine > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique. Matérialisme. Race dans la littérature. Sexualité dans la littérature. materialism (philosophical movement) Sex in literature American literature Materialism Race in literature 1800-1999 Electronic books. Literary criticism Criticism, interpretation, etc. Literary criticism. Critiques littéraires.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Literature confronts physiological psychology, 1860-1911
1. American literary realism and nervous reflexion
2. Memory, materiality, mental telegraphy
3. Vitality, racial creativity, and biopolitics
4. Nervous shock, sexual inversion, and national virility
5. Psychophysics to literary experiments: Gertrude Stein and neural composition
Epilogue: Reflex redux
will, attention, habit, indeterminacy.