Iseli Thomas De Quincey and the Cognitive Unconscious

1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-137-50108-0
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 248 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine

This book examines Thomas De Quincey's notion of the unconscious in the light of modern cognitive science and nineteenth-century science. It challenges Freudian theories as the default methodology in order to understand De Quincey's oeuvre and the unconscious in literature more generally.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Iseli, Markus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Tables Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction PART I: LANGUAGE 1. The Need for Neologisms and the Emergence of Subconscious 2. De Quincey ' 's Subconscious and the Cognitive Unconscious 3. Style and the Revelatory Power of Language PART II: BODY AND BRAIN 4. The Embodied Unconscious in Animal Magnetism and Physiology 5. Mesmeric and Opium-Induced States of Mind 6. The Brain-Mind in the Confessions, Literary Criticism, and Suspiria Epilogue Appendix A Appendix B Notes Bibliography Index

Über Autor(innen)

Markus Iseli holds a PhD from the University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland. He published articles in journals such as the European Romantic Review and Romanticism, and he is the recipient of a Swiss National Science Foundation research grant. His work on the cognitive unconscious in the nineteenth-century context also earned him the Henry-E.-Sigerist-Prize from the Swiss Society for the History of Medicine and Sciences.