Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Beyond the Brain: Sceptical and Satirical Responses to Gall’s Organology

Chapter 3 Neurology and the Invention of Menstruation

Chapter 4 Carlyle’s Nervous Dyspepsia: Nervousness, Indigestion and the Experience of Modernity in Nineteenth-Century Britain

Chapter 5 Railway Spine, Nervous Excess and the Forensic Self

Chapter 6 “The Conviction of its Existence”: Silas Weir Mitchell, Phantom Limbs and Phantom Bodies in Neurology and Spiritualism

Chapter 7 Modernism and the Two Paranoias: The Neurology of Persecution

Chapter 8 “Nerve-Vibration”: Therapeutic Technologies in the 1880s and 1890s

Chapter 10 “I guess I’m just nervous, then”: Neuropathology and Edith Wharton’s Exploration of Interior Geographies

Chapter 11 Sounds of Silence: Aphasiology and the Subject of Modernity

Chapter 12 Shell Shock as a Self-Inflicted Wound, 1915–1921

Chapter 13 Modernity and the Peristaltic Subject

Chapter 14 Matter for Thought: The Psychon in Neurology, Psychology and American Culture, 1927–1943