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02169aam a2200421 i 4500 001 7E18678A1DA411EBAAA0CA112BECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20201103011456 008 200601t20202020vau b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2020024974 020 $a 0813944775 020 $a 9780813944777 020 $a 0813944783 020 $a 9780813944784 035 $a (OCoLC)1151805623 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d YDX $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a e-uk-en 050 00 $a PR438 S37 K45 2020 100 1 $a Keiser, Jess, $d 1984- $e author. 245 10 $a Nervous fictions : $b literary form and the enlightenment origins of neuroscience / $c Jess Keiser. 264 1 $a Charlottesville : $b University of Virginia Press, $c 2020. 300 $a xi, 311 pages ; $c 24 cm 520 $a "Nervous Fictions looks at early writing on the brain and figurative language. It argues that as more became known about the brain and nervous system in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, new literary technologies needed to be developed to describe body and mind"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Personifying the Brain: Thomas Willis's Neuroscience -- Nervous Figures: Cavendish's and Panpsychism -- From Metaphor to Madness: Locke's History -- Visionary Dissections: The Satire of Anatomy -- From the Homunculus to the Great Sensorium of the World: Sterne's Nerves -- The Hypochondriac's Watch: Boswell's Case -- Conclusion. 650 0 $a Literature and science $z England $x History $y 17th century. 650 0 $a Literature and science $z England $x History $y 18h century. 650 0 $a Mind and body in literature. 650 0 $a Science in literature. 650 0 $a Metaphor. 650 0 $a Neurosciences $z England $x History. 776 08 $i Online version: $a Keiser, Jess, 1984- $t Nervous fictions $d Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2020. $z 9780813944791 $w (DLC) 2020024975 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117014209.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20210105040413.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=7E18678A1DA411EBAAA0CA112BECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search