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Thomas De Quincey and the Cognitive Unconscious

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Markus Iseli
      Pages 1-20
  3. Language

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 21-21
    2. Style and the Revelatory Power of Language

      • Markus Iseli
      Pages 71-104
  4. Body and Brain

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 105-105
    2. Mesmeric and Opium-Induced States of Mind

      • Markus Iseli
      Pages 139-160
    3. Epilogue

      • Markus Iseli
      Pages 200-205
  5. Back Matter

    Pages 206-248

About this book

This book examines Thomas De Quincey's notion of the unconscious in the light of modern cognitive science and nineteenth-century science. It challenges Freudian theories as the default methodology in order to understand De Quincey's oeuvre and the unconscious in literature more generally.

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"Much more than a significant addition to De Quincey studies, Thomas de Quincey and the Cognitive Unconscious makes a key intervention into British Romantic scholarship as a whole, adding greatly to our understanding of the interrelations among science and literature in the period while powerfully enriching the key concept of "the unconscious." Original, lively, provocative, and scholarly, Markus Iseli's book makes essential reading for students of nineteenth-century literature, culture, science, and psychology." Alan Richardson, Professor of English, Boston College, USA, author of The Neural Sublime

Authors and Affiliations

  • Switzerland

    Markus Iseli

About the author

Markus Iseli holds a PhD from the University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland. He published articles in journals such as the European Romantic Review and Romanticism, and he is the recipient of a Swiss National Science Foundation research grant. His work on the cognitive unconscious in the nineteenth-century context also earned him the Henry-E.-Sigerist-Prize from the Swiss Society for the History of Medicine and Sciences.
 
 

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