Overview
- Highlights correspondences between scientific writings and fictional texts in the 19th century
- Advances understanding of the history of the German novel
- Reflects on literature’s influence and critique of neuroscientific theories
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine (PLSM)
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Front Matter
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The Emergence of Neuroscience and the German Novel: Poetics of the Brain revises the dominant narrative about the distinctive psychological inwardness and introspective depth of the German novel by reinterpreting the novel’s development from the perspective of the nascent discipline of neuroscience, the emergence of which is coterminous with the rise of the novel form. In particular, it asks how the novel’s formal properties—stylistic, narrative, rhetorical, and figurative—correlate with the formation of a neuroscientific discourse, and how the former may have assisted, disrupted, and/or intensified the medical articulation of neurological concepts. This study poses the question: how does this rapidly evolving field emerge in the context of nineteenth century cultural practices and what were the conditions for its emergence in the German-speaking world specifically? Where did neuroscience begin and how did it broaden in scope? And most crucially, to what degree does it owe its existence to literature?
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Book Title: The Emergence of Neuroscience and the German Novel
Book Subtitle: Poetics of the Brain
Authors: Sonja Boos
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-82816-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-82815-8Published: 30 September 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-82818-9Published: 01 October 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-82816-5Published: 29 September 2021
Series ISSN: 2634-6435
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6443
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 262
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: Nineteenth-Century Literature, Fiction, European Literature, Cultural Studies, Science and Technology Studies, Media and Communication