The Neural Sublime: Cognitive Theories and Romantic Texts

by Alan Richardson

Book Overview

Winner, 2011 Alpha Sigma Nu Book Award in Literature and Fine Arts

The Neural Sublime brings recent work in cognitive neuroscience to bear on some famously vexed issues in British Romantic studies. In exciting and unprecedented ways, Alan Richardson demonstrates how developments in the neurosciences can transform the study of literary history.

Richardson presents six exemplary studies, each exploring a different intersection...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801894522
• ISBN13: 9780801894527
• Release Date: June 2010
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.1"