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Strange Cases

The Medical Case History and the British Novel

By: Jason Tougaw

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Strange Cases

The Medical Case History and the British Novel

By: Jason Tougaw

Strange Cases is the story of the mutual influence of the case history and the British novel during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Fictions from Defoe's Roxana to James's The Turn of the Screw and case histories from George Cheyne's to Sigmund Freud's have found narrative impetus in pathology. The writer of a case history faces a rhetorical bind unique to the human sciences: the need to display the acumen of a scientist and the sympathy warranted to the suffering patient. Repeatedly, case historians justify their publicizing of extreme, often morbid or perverse, states of mind and body by appealing to readers to take pity on patients and to recognize the narrative as a vital social document. Diagnosis and sympathy, explicit rhetorical modes in case histories, operate implicitly in novels, shaping reader-identification. While these two narrative forms set out to fulfill an Enlightenment drive to classify and explain, they also raise social and epistemological questions that challenge some of the Enlightenment's most cherished ideals, including faith in reason, the perfectibility of humankind, and the stability of truth.

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1135510849

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Elusive Brain

Literary Experiments in the Age of Neuroscience

By: Jason Tougaw

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Elusive Brain

Literary Experiments in the Age of Neuroscience

By: Jason Tougaw

Featuring a foreword by renowned neuroscientist Joseph E. LeDoux, The Elusive Brain is an illuminating, comprehensive survey of contemporary literature’s engagement with neuroscience. This fascinating book explores how literature interacts with neuroscience to provide a better understanding of the brain’s relationship to the self. Jason Tougaw surveys the work of contemporary writers—including Oliver Sacks, Temple Grandin, Richard Powers, Siri Hustvedt, and Tito Rajarshi Mukhopadhyay—analyzing the way they experiment with literary forms to frame new views of the immaterial experiences that compose a self. He argues that their work offers a necessary counterbalance to a wider cultural neuromania that seeks out purely neural explanations for human behaviors as varied as reading, economics, empathy, and racism. Building on recent scholarship, Tougaw’s evenhanded account will be an original contribution to the growing field of neuroscience and literature.

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Yale University Press

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0300235607

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9780300235609

The Elusive Brain

Literary Experiments in the Age of Neuroscience

By: Jason Daniel Tougaw

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The Elusive Brain

Literary Experiments in the Age of Neuroscience

By: Jason Daniel Tougaw

A highly original account of how literature and neuroscience interact to explain the relationship between the mind, body, and brain

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0300221177

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Strange Cases

The Medical Case History and the British Novel

By: Jason Tougaw

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The Medical Case History and the British Novel

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