Markus Iseli

Gebundenes Buch

Thomas de Quincey and the Cognitive Unconscious

Beschreibung

This book examines Thomas De Quincey's notion of the unconscious in the light of modern cognitive science and nineteenth-century science. It challenges Freudian theories as the default methodology in order to understand De Quincey's oeuvre and the unconscious in literature more generally.

Autor

Markus Iseli holds a PhD from the University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland. He published articles in journals such as the European Romantic Review and Romanticism, and he is the recipient of a Swiss National Science Foundation research grant. His work on the cognitive unconscious in the nineteenth-century context also earned him the Henry-E.-Sigerist-Prize from the Swiss Society for the History of Medicine and Sciences.    

Produktdetails

• Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan UK / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-137-50107-3
• 1st ed. 2015
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. August 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 450g
• ISBN-13: 9781137501073
• ISBN-10: 1137501073
• Artikelnr.: 42604973

Rezensionen

"Much more than a significant addition to De Quincey studies, Thomas de Quincey and the Cognitive Unconscious makes a key intervention into British Romantic scholarship as a whole, adding greatly to our understanding of the interrelations among science and literature in the period while powerfully enriching the key concept of "the unconscious." Original, lively, provocative, and scholarly, Markus Iseli's book makes essential reading for students of nineteenth-century literature, culture, science, and psychology." Alan Richardson, Professor of English, Boston College, USA, author of The Neural Sublime