Literature, Neurology, and Neuroscience: Neurological and Psychiatric Disorders (Hardcover, New)

Contents include: Shakespeare and Neurology The Overlooked Literary Path to Electrophysiology: Philosophical Dialogues, Novels, and Travel Books Sheridan Le Fanu and the Scientific Millieu of 19th-Century Europe Oscar Wilde and the Brain Cell Forgetting the Madeleine: Proust and the Neurosciences Charcot, La Salpetriere and Hysteria as Represented in European Literature Willie Kuhne, Optography, and Optograms as Represented in Literature Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) in literature: Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar Greco-Roman Poetry and the Nervous System Lord Byron’s Physician: John William Polidori on Somnambulism Phrenology in Victorian Literature