Holding the book "Writing the Brain: Material Minds and Literature, 1800-1880" next to an old stone pillar with the depiction of an urn on it

"Writing the Brain" by Stefan Schöberlein looks at how C19 literature in Britain & the US incorporated discourses from the emerging neuroscience. Authors discussed incl #GeorgeCombe #CharlesDickens #EmilyDickinson #PlinyEarle #BenjaminRush & #AlfredTennyson

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