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Novel Notions: Medical Discourse and the Mapping of the Imagination in Eighteenth-Century English Fiction - Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory Katherine E. Kickel 1st edition
Novel Notions: Medical Discourse and the Mapping of the Imagination in Eighteenth-Century English Fiction - Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
Katherine E. Kickel
Medical, popular, and literary understanding about the imagination converged when Thomas Willis asserted that he had discovered the area of the brain that facilitated imagining. Taking this 'discovery' as paradigmatic, this work examines the reverberations of the medical investigation of the imagination in early British novels.
198 pages
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | May 8, 2007 |
| ISBN13 | 9780415979481 |
| Publishers | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Pages | 198 |
| Dimensions | 150 × 220 × 20 mm · 408 g |
| Language | English |