Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-01001-7 - Popular Fiction and Brain Science in the Late Nineteenth Century Anne Stiles Index More information Index absinthe, 159 automatism (see also reflex action of the albinism, 138, 142 cerebrum, unconscious cerebration), alchemy, 70, 165 6, 51–56, 60, 78, 85, 86, 92, 95, 185, 186, Aldini, Giovanni, 171 201, 207 aliens (see also extraterrestrials), 20, 122–24, 135, autopsies, 2, 35 142, 145, 148, 154, 155 Azam, Eugène, 28, 41 Allen, Grant, 3, 22, 23, 41, 85–112, 114, 115, 157, 208–13 Bain, Alexander, 4, 86, 110, 131 The Colour Sense, 87, 94, 96, 105, 210, 213 Balfour, Arthur, 74 The Evolution of the Idea of God, 89 Ball, Alan, 81 Hilda Wade, 86, 100, 101, 208, 211, 212 Barrett, William, 70, 167 Miss Cayley’s Adventures, 86, 208 Bazin, André, 106 “A Mysterious Occurrence in Piccadilly,” “The Ontology of the Photographic Image,” 94 106 “Our Scientific Observations of a Beard, George, 175 Ghost,” 94 Beckford, William Thomas, 45 Physiological Aesthetics, 85, 87, 91, 96, 105, Bell, Alexander Graham, 93 110, 212 Benjamin, Walter, 108 Recalled to Life, 23, 86–90, 92–96, 99–101, Benson, Herbert, 229 103, 104, 106, 107, 110, 111, 114, The Relaxation Response, 229 115, 208 Bentley, George, 21, 166, 225 “Sight and Smell in Vertebrates,” 97, 101 Bernard, Claude, 4, 55 What’s Bred in the Bone, 86, 208 Bicêtre, 128 The Woman Who Did, 86 Binet, Alfred, 100, 122 ambidextrous education, 35, 39, 131 biological determinism, 1, 9, 22, 32, 51, 55, 81, American Psychiatric Association, 188 115, 128, 184, 188, 190, 207 amnesia, 90, 95, 100, 104, 111, 114 bipolar disorder, 190 Anderson, Hans Christian, 137 Blake, William, 166 anesthesia, 2, 12, 67, 68, 70, 72, 73 blind chess players, 100 Anna O., 31 Böll, Franz, 94, 95, 105, 209 anthropology, 5, 8, 10, 38, 89 Bouillard, Jean Baptiste, 121 Anti-vivisection Act, 12, 61, 67, 98, 140 Bourru, Hippolyte, 31 antivivisection movement, 68, 72 Braddon, Mary Elizabeth, 104, 212 aphasia, 2, 90, 100, 111, 113, 211 brain, 1, 2, 4–6, 9–17, 19–24, 29–40, 43–45, 47, asylums (see also madhouses), 47 49, 51–57, 61–65, 67–70, 75, 77, 78, 80, atheism, 53, 89, 160, 165, 183 86, 88, 89, 92–98, 102, 103, 105, 111–13, Atlantic Cable, 170 115, 119, 121–24, 128, 131–35, 141, 142, atom bomb, 157, 223 143, 145–47, 149, 150, 152, 153, 156–60, attention deficit disorder, 190 167–70, 174, 175, 177, 178, 181, 184–86, Austin Powers, 154 188–90, 193, 198, 199, 203, 214, 215, automata, 51, 52, 54, 55, 69, 72, 75, 86, 186 224, 230 248 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-01001-7 - Popular Fiction and Brain Science in the Late Nineteenth Century Anne Stiles Index More information Index 249 brain cells, 1, 158, 159, 175, 178, 224 Cobbe, Frances Power, 12, 67, 68, 73, 206 brain hemisphere asymmetry, 5, 19, 22, 29, “Science in Excelsis,” 72, 73 31, 131 The Modern Rack: Papers on Vivisection, 12, brain surgery, 56, 77 67 brain tumors, 2, 61, 67 cognitive literary criticism, 4, 189, 190, 230 brain-computer interfacing (BCI), 187 Collins, Wilkie, 13, 69, 104, 127, 218 Brain: A Journal of Neurology, 15, 45, 52 Heart and Science, 13, 69, 127, 218 Breuer, Josef, 15, 31, 111 The Moonstone, 104, 212 Studies in Hysteria, 111 Combe, George, 11 Bridgman, Laura, 100 Corelli City, Colorado, 164 British Association for the Advancement of Corelli, Marie, 3, 17, 20–24, 82, 156–84 Science, 28 Ardath, 158, 164, 165, 171, 177 British Medical Journal, 61 Heliobas Trilogy, 158 Broca, Paul, 2, 35, 121, 122, 199 The Life Everlasting, 20, 158, 162, 163, 165, Brontë, Charlotte 166, 169, 170, 180, 182, 183 Jane Eyre, 12 The Mighty Atom, 165 Villette, 12 A Romance of Two Worlds, 8, 17, 20, 21, 24, Brown-Séquard, Charles Édouard, 5, 33, 35, 38, 158, 160, 161, 169, 176, 223, 225 40, 131, 150 The Secret Power, 180, 223 Brown, Charles Brockden, 11 The Sorrows of Satan, 159 Bruce, Lewis, 6, 29, 192 The Soul of Lilith, 158, 159, 177 Buddhism, 162, 225 The Treasure of Heaven: A Romance of Riches, Burdon Sanderson, John Scott, 1, 55, 56, 64, 157 73, 77 Wormwood, 158, 159 Handbook of the Physiological Laboratory, 73 The Young Diana, 156, 165, 178, 180, 181 Burot, P., 31 Cornhill Magazine, 29, 40, 43, 211 Burton, Tim, 154 corpus callosotomy, 37 Mars Attacks, 154 cortical maps, 2, 12, 61, 62, 64 Bush, George, 189 craniometry, 36, 122, 123, 124 Byron, George Gordon, 126 Crichton, Michael, 185, 186, 229 Terminal Man, 185, 186, 229 Caine, Hall, 76, 157 criminology, 8, 56, 86, 202 Cajal, Santigo Ramón y, 9, 20, 159 Cronenberg, David, 187 Carpenter, William Benjamin, 5, 11, 54–56, 77, eXistenZ, 187 86, 174, 203, 207, 215, 228 Crookes, William, 169, 227 Principles of Human Physiology, 54 Curie, Marie, 180, 181 Principles of Mental Physiology, 174, 203 “Radium and Radioactivity,” 181 case studies, 16, 19, 28–30, 43–48, 59, 62 Curie, Pierre, 180 catalepsy, 59, 60 Cuvier, Georges, 127 cerebral cortex, 2, 14, 21, 67, 97, 102, 158 cyberpunk, 186, 188, 230 cerebral hemispheres, 24, 34, 51, 61, 174 cerebral localization, 2, 3, 5, 6, 10–13, 19, 21–23, Dallas, E. S., 4 34, 35, 48, 51, 52, 54–56, 61, 65, 67, 80, Dames, Nicholas, 4, 104 97, 98, 115, 121, 122, 124, 148, 156, 158, Darwin, Charles, 10, 12, 20, 38, 51, 66, 88, 89, 159, 174, 176, 177, 184–86, 188, 193, 203, 96, 97, 99, 105, 121, 130, 131, 190 216 The Descent of Man, 13, 38, 66 Charcot, Jean Martin, 5, 28, 55, 56, 67, 68, 71, The Origin of Species, 13, 88 72, 73, 74, 77 Daudet, Léon, 71 Cheyne, George, 59 depression, 111, 154, 161, 175, 189, 190 The English Malady, 59 Descartes, René, 2, 34, 51, 52, 75, 85, 86, 207, The Children of the Damned, 186 208 Christian Science, 163, 165, 166 detective fiction, 86, 87, 92, 101, 104, 106, 108, Christianity, 24, 57, 89, 161, 165 212 Clemens, Samuel, 76 Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Clifford, William Kingdon, 52–54, 86, 115 Disorders (DSM), 31, 188, 189, 230 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-01001-7 - Popular Fiction and Brain Science in the Late Nineteenth Century Anne Stiles Index More information 250 Index Dickens, Charles, 111 “The Brain of the Criminal Lunatic,” 15, 38 Dictionary of National Biography, 41 The Functions of the Brain, 64, 69, 204 dissociation, 31, 92, 209 The Localization of Cerebral Disease, 66 dissociative identity disorder (see multiple Ferrier trial, 13, 21, 23, 24, 61, 67–69, 98 personality), 31, 209 First World War, 80, 157 double brain, 30, 33, 40, 48, 197 fissure of Rolando, 62 Doyle, Arthur Conan, 76, 86, 87, 89, 91, 99, Fliess, Wilhelm, 32 107, 208, 209, 211 Flourens, Jean Pierre Marie, 10 The Crooked Man, 104 Forster, Thomas, 172 The Dancing Men, 104 Foucault, Michel, 46, 126, 194 “A Scandal in Bohemia,” 87, 104 Fowler, O. S., 11 A Study in Scarlet, 87 freak shows, 142 Du Bois-Reymond, Emil, 174 free will, 1, 2, 11, 50, 51, 54, 69, 79, 185 dual consciousness (see also dual personality), Freud, Sigmund, 15, 31, 32, 48, 74, 111, 115, 167, 32, 35, 100, 211 179 dual personality (see also dual consciousness), 5, Project for a Scientific Psychology, 179, 198 27–31, 33, 34, 37, 38, 40–42, 44, 47, 49, Studies in Hysteria, 111 90, 92, 100, 209 Fritsch, Gustav, 2, 12, 52, 62, 69, 124, 158, 174 dynamo, 173 “On the Electrical Excitability of the dystopia, 20, 23, 119, 123, 132, 144, 153, 184, 188 Cerebrum,” 174 frontal lobes, 53, 121, 122, 125, 130, 138, 150 Eastman, George, 107 Eddy, Mary Baker, 166 Gall, Franz Joseph, 11, 30, 34, 35, 49, 51, 121, 193 Edison, Thomas, 173, 174 Galton, Francis, 100, 108, 120, 122, 126–28, 130, electricity, 110, 156, 158–62, 167, 168, 170–83, 133, 134, 135, 138, 154 214, 223, 227 English Men of Science: Their Nature and electric battery, 171, 174–78 Nurture, 127, 134 electric circuit, 171, 176 Hereditary Genius, 126, 130 Electric Creed, 158, 159, 161–65, 171, 180, 181, Galvani, Luigi, 171–74, 227 183, 223 De viribus electricitatis in motu musculari. electric fish, 172, 173, 176, 177, 227 Commentarius, 171 electric shock, 172, 176 galvanism, 176 electrotherapy, 161, 175, 178, 182 genius, 125, 127, 129, 134 Eliot, George, 3, 4, 12, 76, 132, 191, 194 germ plasm theory of inheritance, 132 Daniel Deronda, 4 Gibson, William, 186 The Lifted Veil, 12 Neuromancer, 186 Middlemarch, 3, 8 Gilman, Charlotte Perkins, 106, 177 The Mill on the Floss, 8 “The Yellow Wallpaper,” 106, 177 Ellis, Havelock, 15 Gladstone, William, 157 epilepsy, 128, 189 Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 172 epiphenomenalism, 52, 201 Golgi, Camillo, 159 Esquirol, Jean, 128 Goltz, Frierich, 12, 67, 205 eugenics, 101, 134 Gothic fiction, 7, 9, 11, 14, 16, 30, 69, 186, evolution, 5, 7, 8, 20, 37, 38, 77, 88, 96, 101, 119, 192, 193 123, 131, 132, 136, 141, 145–47, 151–53, Gothic romance, 1, 3, 5, 8–10, 16, 19, 20, 22, 24, 188, 222 30, 47, 154, 160, 193, 223 evolutionary regression, 56, 128, 146 Gould, Steven J., 35 extraterrestrials (see also aliens), 20, 119, 120, Grand Lunar, 20, 152, 153 130, 133, 143, 148, 154, 170 Gray, Robert, 59 The Theory of Dreams, 59 Faust legends, 17, 70 Gurney, Edmund, 167, 226 Félida X, 28, 31, 35, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 100, Phantasms of the Living, 167, 169 197, 211 Ferrier, David, 1, 2, 5, 12–16, 21, 35, 38, 52, 55, Hacking, Ian, 28, 41, 48 56, 61, 62, 64–71, 73, 77, 97, 98, 124, 125, Haggard, H.