Nervous acts : essays on literature, culture, and sensibility

Chapter 1 ‘Originated Neurology’: Nerves, Spirits and Fibers, 1969–2004

Chapter 2 Science and the Discovery of the Imagination (1969)

Chapter 3 Pineapples, Pregnancy, and Pica: Nerves and the ‘Mother’s Imagination’ (1972)

Chapter 4 Nerves and Racism: Le Cat’s Neurology of Racism (1973)

Chapter 5 Nerves, Spirits and Fibres: Toward the Origins of Sensibility (1975)

Chapter 6 Nerves and Nymphomania: Bienville and Female Sensibility (1982)

Chapter 7 Discourses of the Nerve (1989)

Chapter 8 Towards a Semiotics of the Nerve (1991)

Chapter 9 ‘Strange Pathology’: Nerves and the Hysteria Diagnosis in Early Modern Europe (1993)