Gavin Budge
Palgrave Macmillan UK
e druk, 2012
9780230238466
Romanticism, Medicine and the Natural Supernatural
Transcendent Vision and Bodily Spectres, 1789-1852
Specificaties
Gebonden, blz.
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Engels
Palgrave Macmillan UK |
e druk, 2012
ISBN13: 9780230238466
Rubricering
Verwachte levertijd ongeveer 9 werkdagen
Samenvatting
This fascinating interdisciplinary study examines the relationship between literary interest in visionary kinds of experience and medical ideas about hallucination and the nerves in the first half of the nineteenth century, focusing on canonical Romantic authors, the work of women writers influenced by Romanticism, and visual culture.
Specificaties
ISBN13:9780230238466
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:gebonden
Uitgever:Palgrave Macmillan UK
Hoofdrubriek:Woordenboeken en taal
Inhoudsopgave
Acknowledgements Introduction Radcliffe and the Spectral Scene of Reading Erasmus Darwin and Wordsworth's Poetics Indigestion and Coleridge's Medical Imagination Irritability and the Politics of Deerbrook Slavery and Mass Society in Uncle Tom's Cabin The Hallucination of the Real: Pre-Raphaelite Vision, Democracy and Masculinity Conclusion: Nineteenth-Century Medicine and the Genealogy of English Studies Notes Bibliography Index