In the 1860s and 1870s, leading neurologists used animal
experimentation to establish that discrete sections of the brain
regulate specific mental and physical functions. These discoveries
had immediate medical benefits: David Ferrier's detailed cortical
maps, for example, saved lives by helping surgeons locate brain
tumors and haemorrhages without first opening up the skull. These
experiments both incited controversy and stimulated creative
thought, because they challenged the possibility of an
extra-corporeal soul. This book examines the cultural impact of
neurological experiments on late-Victorian Gothic romances by
Robert Louis Stevenson, Bram Stoker, H. G. Wells and others. Novels
like Dracula and Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde expressed the deep-seated
fears and visionary possibilities suggested by cerebral
localization research, and offered a corrective to the linearity
and objectivity of late Victorian neurology.
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