Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Languages : en
Pages : 478

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Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Category : American essays
Languages : en
Pages : 470

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Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Languages : en
Pages : 492

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Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385357950
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 458

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.

Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Category : Literature, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 644

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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 780

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Pages : 688

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Author: Randall Knoper
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019266025X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 368

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Writing about the brain and the nervous system more than a century ago, what were U.S. authors doing? Literary Neurophysiology: Memory, Race, Sex, and Representation in U.S. Writing, 1860-1914 examines their use of literature to experiment with the new materialist psychology, a science that was challenging their capacity to represent reality and forging new understandings of race and sexuality. Late-nineteenth and eartly-twentieth century authors sometimes emulated scientific epistemology, allowing their art and conceptions of creativity to be reshaped by it, but more often they imaginatively investigated neurophysiological theories, challenging and rewriting scientific explanations of human identity and behavior. By enfolding physiological experimentation into literary inquiries that could nonreductively account for psychological and social complexities beyond the reach of the laboratory, they used literature as a cognitive medium. Mark Twain, W. D. Howells, and Gertrude Stein come together as they probe the effects on mimesis and creativity of reflex-based automatisms and unconscious meaning-making. Oliver Wendell Holmes explores conceptions of racial nerve force elaborated in population statistics and biopolitics, while W. E. B. Du Bois and Pauline Hopkins contest notions of racial energy used to predict the extinction of African Americans. Holmes explores new definitions of "sexual inversion" as, in divergent ways, Whitman and John Addington Symonds evaluate relations among nerve force, human fecundity, and the supposed grave of nonreproductive sex. Carefully tracing entanglements and conflicts between literary culture and mental science of this period, Knoper reveals unexpected connections among these authors and fresh insights into the science they confronted. Considering their writing as cognitive practice, he provides a new understanding of literary realism and of the emergent distinction between literary and scientific knowledge.