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Novel Notions Medical Discourse and the Mapping of the Imagination in Eighteenth-Century English Fiction
By Katherine E. Kickel
Copyright 2007
198 Pages
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Routledge
198 Pages
by
Routledge
198 Pages
by
Routledge
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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, Novel Notions examines the reverberations of the medical investigation of the imagination in early British novels by Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Laurence Sterne, and Ann... Read more
Author’s Note on Editions and Abbreviations Acknowledgments Introduction: Discovering the Early Modern Imagination Chapter One: Investigating the Imagination: The Arrival of a Cartesian Mediator in Science and Medicine Chapter Two: Hearing Imagining: Rhetorical Discordance in Daniel Defoe’s A Journal of the Plague Year Chapter Three: Imagining a Novel’s Life: The Generative Power of Authorship in Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones Chapter Four: Making Sense of Novel Reading: New Curiosity Concerning Synaesthesia in Laurence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy Chapter Five: Seeing Imagining: The Resurgence of A New Theory of Vision in Ann Radcliffe’s The Mysteries of Udolpho Conclusion: An Enlightened Imagination? Notes Bibliography Index
Biography
Katherine E. Kickel
