Nervous Fictions

Author : Jess Keiser
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 0813944791
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nervous Fictions written by Jess Keiser and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2020-09-21 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The brain contains ten thousand cells," wrote the poet Matthew Prior in 1718, "in each some active fancy dwells." In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, just as scientists began to better understand the workings of the nerves, the nervous system became the site for a series of elaborate fantasies. The pineal gland is transformed into a throne for the sovereign soul. Animal spirits march the nerves like parading soldiers. An internal archivist searches through cerebral impressions to locate certain memories. An anatomist discovers that the brain of a fashionable man is stuffed full of beautiful clothes and billet-doux. A hypochondriac worries that his own brain will be disassembled like a watch. A sentimentalist sees the entire world as a giant nervous system comprising sympathetic spectators. Nervous Fictions is the first account of the Enlightenment origins of neuroscience and the "active fancies" it generated. By surveying the work of scientists (Willis, Newton, Cheyne), philosophers (Descartes, Cavendish, Locke), satirists (Swift, Pope), and novelists (Haywood, Fielding, Sterne), Keiser shows how attempts to understand the brain’s relationship to the mind produced in turn new literary forms. Early brain anatomists turned to tropes to explicate psyche and cerebrum, just as poets and novelists found themselves exploring new kinds of mental and physical interiority. In this respect, literary language became a tool to aid scientific investigation, while science spurred literary invention.

Author : Lina Meruane
Publisher : Graywolf Press
ISBN 13 : 1644451492
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nervous System written by Lina Meruane and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2021-05-18 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An electrifying novel about illness, displacement, and what holds us together, by the author of Seeing Red Ella is an astrophysicist struggling with her doctoral thesis in the “country of the present” but she is from the “country of the past,” a place burdened in her memory by both personal and political tragedies. Her partner, El, is a forensic scientist who analyzes the bones of victims of state violence and is recovering from an explosion at a work site that almost killed him. Consumed by writer’s block, Ella finds herself wishing that she would become ill, which would provide time for writing and perhaps an excuse for her lack of progress. Then she begins to experience mysterious symptoms that doctors find undiagnosable. As Ella’s anxiety grows, the past begins to exert a strong gravitational pull, and other members of her family come into focus: the widowed Father, the Stepmother, the Twins, and the Firstborn. Each of them has their own experience of illness and violence, and eventually the systems that both hold them together and atomize them are exposed. Lina Meruane’s Nervous System is an extraordinary clinical biography of a family, full of affection and resentment, dark humor and buried secrets, in which illness describes the traumas that can be visited not just upon the body, but on families and on the history of the countries—present and past—that we live in.

Author : William G. Tapply
Publisher : Minotaur Books
ISBN 13 : 1466801875
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nervous Water written by William G. Tapply and published by Minotaur Books. This book was released on 2005-09-01 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In one of the finest novels yet in Tapply's long-running series, Nervous Water explores the previously hidden past of his much beloved character, Boston attorney Brady Coyne. Contacted by an aged relative with whom he'd long lost touch, Brady agrees to help his Uncle Moze with a sensitive family matter. Having received a diagnosis of terminal cancer, Moze is looking to mend fences with his only daughter. But the daughter seems to have simply disappeared, leaving no clues or hints as to her whereabouts. As Brady tackles the seemingly impossible task of finding his cousin - a case that looks less and less like a simple missing person case - it becomes clear that whatever is going on now is related to a dark, undiscussed episode in his family's past: the brutal, still unsolved murder of another of Brady's uncles.

Author : Barbara deRubertis
Publisher : Triangle Interactive, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1684440564
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nina Nandu's Nervous Noggin written by Barbara deRubertis and published by Triangle Interactive, Inc. . This book was released on 2017-12-13 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Read Along or Enhanced eBook: Nina Nandu has just moved to a new neighborhood, and she does NOT want to go to a new school. But Granny Nandu and teacher Alpha Betty have other ideas—plus a big surprise for Nina!

Author : G. Rousseau
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230505155
Total Pages : 395 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nervous Acts written by G. Rousseau and published by Springer. This book was released on 2004-11-02 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These essays demonstrate the sweeping influence of the human nervous system on the rise of literature and sensibility in early modern Europe. The brain and nerves have usually been treated as narrow topics within the history of science and medicine. Now George Rousseau, an international authority on the relations of literature and medicine, demonstrates why a broader context is necessary. The nervous system was a crucial factor in the rise of recent civilization. More than any other body part, it holds the key to understanding how far back the strains and stresses of modern life - fatigue, depression, mental illness - extend.

Author : Raina Telgemeier
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0545852536
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Guts: A Graphic Novel written by Raina Telgemeier and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2019-09-17 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A true story from Raina Telgemeier, the #1 New York Timesbestselling, multiple Eisner Award-winning author of Smile, Sisters, Drama, and Ghosts! Raina wakes up one night with a terrible upset stomach. Her mom has one, too, so it's probably just a bug. Raina eventually returns to school, where she's dealing with the usual highs and lows: friends, not-friends, and classmates who think the school year is just one long gross-out session. It soon becomes clear that Raina's tummy trouble isn't going away... and it coincides with her worries about food, school, and changing friendships. What's going on?Raina Telgemeier once again brings us a thoughtful, charming, and funny true story about growing up and gathering the courage to face -- and conquer -- her fears.

Author : Marne Ventura
Publisher : Capstone
ISBN 13 : 1496536134
Total Pages : 97 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nervous Nellie Fights First-Day Frenzy written by Marne Ventura and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2016-08 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nellie is looking forward to the first day of school. But her heart drops when she learns she won't be with her friends, but with her worst enemy--and a teacher who is new to the school.

Author : Joelle Riley
Publisher : Lerner Publications ™
ISBN 13 : 1541505719
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Your Nervous System written by Joelle Riley and published by Lerner Publications ™. This book was released on 2017-08-01 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The nervous system is made up of the brain, the nerves, and the spinal cord. But what does the nervous system do? And how do its parts work together to help your body function? Explore the nervous system in this engaging and informative book.

Author : Robert Sproul Carroll
Publisher : Books Explorer
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.RA/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Our Nervous Friends written by Robert Sproul Carroll and published by Books Explorer. This book was released on 1919 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The publication date likely mirrors the medical and emotional views of the early twentieth century, when mental health wasn't as developed as it is these days. The Mastery of Nervousness, ' based mostly upon the reeducation of person, was released in 1918. The theme of the guide was humanity's time getting used to to issues, folks, and self. In an useful option was suggested a common sense living - diet that is simple, physical and mental exercise, and a right command of the emotions. In the present volume actual folks, whose lives are made unhappy from morbid psychological behavior, and who have endured a lot due to physical sick created from mistakes of living, are actually pictured. It's a forceful illustration belonging to the concepts advocated in' The Mastery of Nervousness.' The writer has the narrative design and also can make a little of a story. In this intriguing way numerous truths are convincingly displayed; what about the distinct, certain portrayal of the characters of his, instruction in living that is right are actually revealed. The historical context might reveal insights into the way nervousness was viewed as well as treated in that time - a different perspective compared to contemporary awareness. The early 20th century might have mirrored the social views on mental health problems.

Author : Joel Faflak
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791485595
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nervous Reactions written by Joel Faflak and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nervous Reactions considers Victorian responses to Romanticism, particularly the way in which the Romantic period was frequently constructed in Victorian-era texts as a time of nervous or excitable authors (and readers) at odds with Victorian values of self-restraint, moderation, and stolidity. Represented in various ways—as a threat to social order, as a desirable freedom of feeling, as a pathological weakness that must be cured—this nervousness, both about and of the Romantics, is an important though as yet unaddressed concern in Victorian responses to Romantic texts. By attending to this nervousness, the essays in this volume offer a new consideration not only of the relationship between the Victorian and Romantic periods, but also of the ways in which our own responses to Romanticism have been mediated by this Victorian attention to Romantic excitability. Considering editions and biographies as well as literary and critical responses to Romantic writers, the volume addresses a variety of discursive modes and genres, and brings to light a number of authors not normally included in the longstanding category of "Victorian Romanticism": on the Romantic side, not just Wordsworth, Keats, and P. B. Shelley but also Byron, S. T. Coleridge, Thomas De Quincey, Mary Shelley, and Mary Wollstonecraft; and on the Victorian side, not just Thomas Carlyle and the Brownings but also Sara Coleridge, George Eliot, Elizabeth Gaskell, Archibald Lampman, and J. S. Mill. Contributors include D. M. R. Bentley, Kristen Guest, Joel Faflak, Grace Kehler, Donelle Ruwe, Alan Vardy, Lisa Vargo, Timothy J. Wandling, Joanne Wilkes, and Julia M. Wright.