Neurology and Modernity
A Cultural History of Nervous Systems, 1800–1950
Authors: Salisbury, Laura, Shail, Andrew
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- About this book
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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.
- About the authors
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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). - Reviews
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'This excellent collection opens up a fascinating area of discourse in relation to the modern area, moving the debate away from established thinking on 'nerves' in terms of neurasthenia, shell-shock and neurosis,and investigating a much wider range of issues indeed a whole a culture of nervousness - informed by the new understandings of neurology. The essays range across a variety of fascinating topics (speech disorders, peristalsis, vibration-cures, paranoia), exploring the dethroned modern self, wired from within and without to its physical and social environment. For the student of bodily and mental cultures, this will be a vital text.' - Tim Armstrong, Royal Holloway, University of London
- Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Introduction
Pages 1-40
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Beyond the Brain: Sceptical and Satirical Responses to Gall’s Organology
Pages 41-58
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Neurology and the Invention of Menstruation
Pages 59-80
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Carlyle’s Nervous Dyspepsia: Nervousness, Indigestion and the Experience of Modernity in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Pages 81-95
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Railway Spine, Nervous Excess and the Forensic Self
Pages 96-112
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Neurology and Modernity
- Book Subtitle
- A Cultural History of Nervous Systems, 1800–1950
- Authors
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- Laura Salisbury
- Andrew Shail
- Copyright
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Copyright Holder
- Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited
- eBook ISBN
- 978-0-230-27800-4
- DOI
- 10.1057/9780230278004
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-0-230-23313-3
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-1-349-31324-2
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XIII, 298
- Number of Illustrations
- 7 b/w illustrations
- Topics
