Author: Chris Blakely

Lianne Habinek, The Subtle Knot: Early Modern English Literature and the Birth of Neuroscience (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s Press, 2018), 283 pp. $55 CAD Hb. ISBN: 9780773553187 Could it be like a book, a box, a womb, an engine, a maze, or a palace? Early modern writers experimented with multiple metaphors for the brain in the sixteenth…