Offers an account of early Neuroscience and of the peculiar Literary forms it produced.
Challenging the divide between science and literature, philosophy and fiction, Jess Keiser draws attention to a distinctive, but so far unacknowledged, mode of writing evident in a host of late seventeenth and eighteenth-century texts: the Nervous fiction..
Offers an account of early Neuroscience and of the peculiar Literary forms it produced