Nervous Fictions: Literary Form and the Enlightenment Origins of Neuroscience by Jess Keiser

Nervous Fictions: Literary Form and the Enlightenment Origins of Neuroscience

Jess Keiser

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"The brain contains ten thousand cells," wrote the poet Matthew Prior in 1718, "in each some active fancy dwells." In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, just as scientists began to better understand the workings of the nerves, the nervous s...

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