The Wordsworth-Coleridge Circle and the Aesthetics of Disability

Emily B. Stanback is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Southern Mississippi, USA. She researches and teaches at the intersections of British Romantic literature, Disability Studies, and the history of medicine.

List of figures.- Acknowledgements.- Introduction.- 1. Citizen Thelwall and Thomas Beddoes M.D.: Romantic Medicines, Disability, and ‘Health’.- 2. Pneumatic Self-Experimentation and the Aesthetics of Deviant Embodiment.- 3. ‘an almost painful exquisiteness of Taste’: Wedgwood’s Pleasure and His Body in Pain.- 4. Between the Author ‘Disabled’ and the Coleridgean Imagination: STC’s Epistolary Pathographies.- 5. Wordsworthian Encounters: Sympathy, Admonishment, and the Aesthetics of Human Difference.- 6. ‘queer points’ and ‘answering needles’: Lamb’s Spectacular Metropolitanism and Modern Disability.- Notes.- Bibliography.- Index.-