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This chapter considers the connection between science, specialization, overwork, and obsession. It shows each is the other in the nineteenth century. The discussion covers obsession as modernity; Thomas Love Peacock's book, Nightmare Abbey; Sir Francis Galton and his tendency towards obsessive thinking; genius as madness; Wilkie Collins's 1883 novel, Heart and Science; Robert Louis Stevenson's novella, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde; Foucault and madness; and madness and normal.
Keywords: science; overwork; obsession; modernity; Thomas Love Peacock; Francis Galton; Wilkie Collins; Robert Louis Stevenson; Foucault; madness
Chapter. 8990 words. Illustrated.
Subjects: History of Science and Technology
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