Romanticism, Medicine and the Natural Supernatural
Transcendent Vision and Bodily Spectres, 1789-1852
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2012
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1st ed. 2012
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-349-31564-2 (ISBN)
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-349-31564-2 (ISBN)
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.
GAVIN BUDGE is a Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Hertfordshire, UK. He is the author of Charlotte M Yonge: Religion, Feminism and Realism in the Victorian Novel (Lang 2007), and editor of a collection of essays, Romantic Empiricism: Poetics and the Philosophy of Common Sense.
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
Erscheinungsdatum | 26.05.2016 |
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Zusatzinfo | VIII, 295 p. |
Verlagsort | Basingstoke |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 140 x 216 mm |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
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Schlagworte | Coleridge • Culture • English Studies • Imagination • Romanticism • Samuel Taylor Coleridge • Society • Visual Culture • William Wordsworth |
ISBN-10 | 1-349-31564-8 / 1349315648 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-349-31564-2 / 9781349315642 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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