Stefan Schöberlein is Assistant Professor of English at Texas A&M University-Central Texas. He has edited Walt Whitman's New Orleans, co-edited the Oxford Handbook of Walt Whitman, and published literary translations into German. He has served as president of the Digital Americanists Society and is currently a contributing editor of the Walt Whitman Archive.

• Acknowledgements The First Century of the Brain: An Introduction Chapter 1. Nature's Mind and Mind's Nature: Romantic Cognition Between Harp and AtomHarp-Strings Mind-Strings Mind-Matter Mind-Atoms Chapter 2. Split Brains, Doubled Minds: The Gothic's Bicameral VisionThe Sleepers Dialoging the Self Hemispheric Voices Master-Minds Chapter 3: Skulls and Society: Reading the Mind as a Multi-Organ EntityBrain-DamagePhrenology as SociologyPhrenological VictorianismPhrenological AmericanismPhrenology's Real Chapter 4: Cranial Reconstruction: Racialized Brains and the Psychometric RealUncommon MindsGreat BrainsA Cranial Case StudyRealism as Psychometry Chapter 5: Rattle-Brained: Insanity as Material MetacognitionYou, Me, BrainMetempsychosis as MetacognitionInsanity as Pop CulturePsychosis as Metacognition Chapter 6: The Telegraphed Brain: Wires as Proto-NeuronsThoughts on WiresTelegraphed MindsIntrospective Brain-Machines AfterwordReferencesIndex

Writing the Brain is an outstanding contribution to the growing body of work on nineteenth-century brain science and literature. The author brings extensive knowledge of Anglophone and European neurology to bear on canonical works like Wuthering Heights, Leaves of Grass, and the poems of Emily Dickinson, producing compelling original readings. Schöberlein's adept use of anecdote and illustration makes this a particularly accessible resource that is well-suited for the classroom.

Stefan Schöberlein is Assistant Professor of English at Texas A&M University-Central Texas. He has edited Walt Whitman's New Orleans, co-edited the Oxford Handbook of Walt Whitman, and published literary translations into German. He has served as president of the Digital Americanists Society and is currently a contributing editor of the Walt Whitman Archive.

• Acknowledgements The First Century of the Brain: An Introduction Chapter 1. Nature's Mind and Mind's Nature: Romantic Cognition Between Harp and AtomHarp-Strings Mind-Strings Mind-Matter Mind-Atoms Chapter 2. Split Brains, Doubled Minds: The Gothic's Bicameral VisionThe Sleepers Dialoging the Self Hemispheric Voices Master-Minds Chapter 3: Skulls and Society: Reading the Mind as a Multi-Organ EntityBrain-DamagePhrenology as SociologyPhrenological VictorianismPhrenological AmericanismPhrenology's Real Chapter 4: Cranial Reconstruction: Racialized Brains and the Psychometric RealUncommon MindsGreat BrainsA Cranial Case StudyRealism as Psychometry Chapter 5: Rattle-Brained: Insanity as Material MetacognitionYou, Me, BrainMetempsychosis as MetacognitionInsanity as Pop CulturePsychosis as Metacognition Chapter 6: The Telegraphed Brain: Wires as Proto-NeuronsThoughts on WiresTelegraphed MindsIntrospective Brain-Machines AfterwordReferencesIndex

Writing the Brain is an outstanding contribution to the growing body of work on nineteenth-century brain science and literature. The author brings extensive knowledge of Anglophone and European neurology to bear on canonical works like Wuthering Heights, Leaves of Grass, and the poems of Emily Dickinson, producing compelling original readings. Schöberlein's adept use of anecdote and illustration makes this a particularly accessible resource that is well-suited for the classroom.

Stefan Schöberlein is Assistant Professor of English at Texas A&M University-Central Texas. He has edited Walt Whitman's New Orleans, co-edited the Oxford Handbook of Walt Whitman, and published literary translations into German. He has served as president of the Digital Americanists Society and is currently a contributing editor of the Walt Whitman Archive.

• Acknowledgements The First Century of the Brain: An Introduction Chapter 1. Nature's Mind and Mind's Nature: Romantic Cognition Between Harp and AtomHarp-Strings Mind-Strings Mind-Matter Mind-Atoms Chapter 2. Split Brains, Doubled Minds: The Gothic's Bicameral VisionThe Sleepers Dialoging the Self Hemispheric Voices Master-Minds Chapter 3: Skulls and Society: Reading the Mind as a Multi-Organ EntityBrain-DamagePhrenology as SociologyPhrenological VictorianismPhrenological AmericanismPhrenology's Real Chapter 4: Cranial Reconstruction: Racialized Brains and the Psychometric RealUncommon MindsGreat BrainsA Cranial Case StudyRealism as Psychometry Chapter 5: Rattle-Brained: Insanity as Material MetacognitionYou, Me, BrainMetempsychosis as MetacognitionInsanity as Pop CulturePsychosis as Metacognition Chapter 6: The Telegraphed Brain: Wires as Proto-NeuronsThoughts on WiresTelegraphed MindsIntrospective Brain-Machines AfterwordReferencesIndex

Writing the Brain is an outstanding contribution to the growing body of work on nineteenth-century brain science and literature. The author brings extensive knowledge of Anglophone and European neurology to bear on canonical works like Wuthering Heights, Leaves of Grass, and the poems of Emily Dickinson, producing compelling original readings. Schöberlein's adept use of anecdote and illustration makes this a particularly accessible resource that is well-suited for the classroom.