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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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Reviews
'This excellent collection opens up a fascinating area of discourse in relation to the modern area, moving the debate away from established thinking on 'nerves' in terms of neurasthenia, shell-shock and neurosis,and investigating a much wider range of issues indeed a whole a culture of nervousness - informed by the new understandings of neurology. The essays range across a variety of fascinating topics (speech disorders, peristalsis, vibration-cures, paranoia), exploring the dethroned modern self, wired from within and without to its physical and social environment. For the student of bodily and mental cultures, this will be a vital text.' - Tim Armstrong, Royal Holloway, University of London
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
LAURA SALISBURY is RCUK Fellow in Science, Technology, and Culture and a Lecturer at Birkbeck, University of London. She has published various articles on Samuel Beckett, including one on his 'aphasic' modernism. She is currently writing a book on Late Modernisms for Edinburgh University Press and researching a study of the relationships between modernism, modernity and neurological conceptions of language.
ANDREW SHAIL News International Research Fellow in Film at St Anne's College, University of Oxford. He is co-editor of Menstruation: A Cultural History (with Gillian Howie, Palgrave, 2005), and editor of Reading the Cinematograph: The Cinema in British Short Fiction 1896-1912 (University of Exeter Press, 2010), and co-author, with Bob Stoate, of a BFI Film Classic on Back to the Future (2010).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Neurology and Modernity
Book Subtitle: A Cultural History of Nervous Systems, 1800–1950
Editors: Laura Salisbury, Andrew Shail
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230278004
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2010
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-23313-3Published: 10 February 2010
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-31324-2Published: 10 February 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-27800-4Published: 10 February 2010
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 298
Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations
Topics: History of Science, History of Psychology, History of Medicine, Cultural History, Social History, Modern History