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Neurology and Modernity
A Cultural History of Nervous Systems, 1800-1950
ISBN/EAN: 9781349313242
Umbreit-Nr.: 9761369
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: xiii, 298 S., 7 s/w Illustr., 298 p. 7 illus.
Format in cm:
Einband:
kartoniertes Buch
Erschienen am 10.02.2010
Auflage: 1/2010
- Zusatztext
- As people of the modern era were singularly prone to nervous disorders, the nervous system became a model for describing political and social organization. This volume untangles the mutual dependencies of scientific neurology and the cultural attitudes of the period 1800-1950, exploring how and why modernity was a fundamentally nervous state.
- Autorenportrait
- LAURA SALISBURY is RCUK Fellow in Science, Technology, and Culture and a Lecturer at Birkbeck, University of London. She has published various articles on Samuel Beckett, including one on his 'aphasic' modernism. She is currently writing a book on Late Modernisms for Edinburgh University Press and researching a study of the relationships between modernism, modernity and neurological conceptions of language. ANDREW SHAIL News International Research Fellow in Film at St Anne's College, University of Oxford. He is co-editor of Menstruation: A Cultural History (with Gillian Howie, Palgrave, 2005), and editor of Reading the Cinematograph: The Cinema in British Short Fiction 1896-1912 (University of Exeter Press, 2010), and co-author, with Bob Stoate, of a BFI Film Classic on Back to the Future (2010).