Wordsworth-Coleridge Circle and the Aesthetics of Disability

Inbunden, Engelska, 2017

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Beskrivning

The book reassesses well-known literary and medical works by such authors as William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Humphry Davy, argues for the importance of lesser-studied work by authors including Charles Lamb and Thomas Beddoes, and introduces significant unpublished work by Tom Wedgwood.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2017-11-10
Mått:148 x 210 x 28 mm
Vikt:576 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
Antal sidor:337
Upplaga:17001
Förlag:Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN:9781137511393

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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.

Innehållsförteckning

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.-