Novel notions : medical discourse and the mapping of the imagination in eighteenth-century English fiction / 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, Novel Notions examines the reverberations of the medical investigation...
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| Series: | Literary criticism and cultural theory.
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