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In this fascinating study, Justine Murison investigates the various discourses surrounding the workings of and roles played by the nervous system in nineteenth-century literature and culture. In the course of tracing circuits of exchange between body and mind, individual and surrounding environment, she calls attention to a variety of applications for new, oftentimes contested, understandings of physiological integrity and vulnerability in the era's cultural, national, and political movements...Murison's attention to the role of embodiment in constructing social, historical, and most of all, fictional narratives (p. 12) reflects the fact that her project is part of a very big, field-changing, post- neuroscientific turn (p. 175) methodological approach, and it's exciting work to watch unfold. -Maura D'Amore, THE NEW ENGLAND QUARTERLY

In this fascinating study, Justine Murison investigates the various discourses surrounding the workings of and roles played by the nervous system in nineteenth-century literature and culture. In the course of tracing circuits of exchange between body and mind, individual and surrounding environment, she calls attention to a variety of applications for new, oftentimes contested, understandings of physiological integrity and vulnerability in the era's cultural, national, and political movements....Murison's attention to the role of embodiment in constructing social, historical, and most of all, fictional narratives (p. 12) reflects the fact that her project is part of a very big, field-changing, post- neuroscientific turn (p. 175) methodological approach, and it's exciting work to watch unfold. -Maura D'Amore, THE NEW ENGLAND QUARTERLY

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Justine Murison is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

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