Neurology and Literature, 1860-1920

This collection demonstrates how late-Victorian and Edwardian neurology and fiction shared common philosophical concerns and rhetorical strategies. Between 1860 and 1920 witnessed unprecedented interdisciplinary collaboration between scientists and artists, finding common ground in the prevailing intellectual climate of biological determinism.

JAMES KENNAWAY Postdoctoral research fellow in the music department at Stanford University, USA RANDALL KNOPER Associate Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA DON LACOSS Assistant Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin, LaCrosse, USA ANDREW MANGHAM Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Reading, UK JILL L. MATUS Professor of English and Vice-Principal of University College at the University of Toronto, Canada MARK S. MICALE Associate Professor of History at the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana, USA LAURA OTIS Professor of English at Emory University, USA KRISTINE SWENSON Associate Professor of English at the University of Missouri-Rolla, USA