Romanticism, Medicine and the Natural Supernatural

Transcendent Vision and Bodily Spectres, 1789-1852
2013
ISBN: 978-0-230-23846-6
Verlag: Springer Nature B.V.

Buch, Englisch, 295 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 500 g

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Budge, Gavin

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

GAVIN BUDGE is a Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Hertfordshire, UK. He is the author of (Lang 2007), and editor of a collection of essays,