Neurology and Literature, 1860-1920

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction; A.Stiles PART I: CATALYSTS Howled Out of the Country: Wilkie Collins and H.G. Wells Retry David Ferrier; L.Otis Our Lady of Darkness: Decadent Arts and the Magnetic Sleep of Magdeleine G.; D.LaCoss PART II: DIAGNOSTIC CATEGORIES How Do I Look? Dysmorphophobia and Obsession at the Fin de Siècle; A.Mangham Doctor Zay and Dr. Mitchell: Elizabeth Stuart Phelps's Feminist Response to Mainstream Neurology; K.Swenson PART III: SEX AND THE BRAIN Trauma and Sexual Inversion, circa 1885: Dr Holmes's A Mortal Antipathy and Maladies of Representation; R.Knoper Singing the Body Electric: Nervous Music and Sexuality in Fin-de-Siècle Literature; J.Kennaway PART IV: THE TRAUMATIZED BRAIN Emergent Theories of Victorian Mind Shock: From War and Railway Accident to Nerves, Electricity and Emotion; J.Matus Medical and Literary Discourses of Trauma in the Age of the American Civil War; M.Micale Works Cited Index