Brittany Pladek is Associate Professor of English at Marquette University.

‘Pladek’s book reaffirms the importance of the Romantic period in its identification of the era as witnessing the origin of New Critical ideas of unity and wholeness in literature and therapeutic holism in the health humanities. It places the literature of the period center stage in debates that are still ongoing now.’ Sharon Ruston, European Romantic Review

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1 Therapeutic Holism: The Persistence of Metaphor2 From John Stuart Mill to the Medical Humanities3 ‘Soothing Thoughts’: William Wordsworth and the Poetry of Relief4 Palliating Humanity in The Last Man5 John Keats’s ‘Sickness Not Ignoble’6 Thomas Lovell Beddoes’s ‘Fictitious Condition’Works CitedIndex

Brittany Pladek is Associate Professor of English at Marquette University.

‘Pladek’s book reaffirms the importance of the Romantic period in its identification of the era as witnessing the origin of New Critical ideas of unity and wholeness in literature and therapeutic holism in the health humanities. It places the literature of the period center stage in debates that are still ongoing now.’ Sharon Ruston, European Romantic Review

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1 Therapeutic Holism: The Persistence of Metaphor2 From John Stuart Mill to the Medical Humanities3 ‘Soothing Thoughts’: William Wordsworth and the Poetry of Relief4 Palliating Humanity in The Last Man5 John Keats’s ‘Sickness Not Ignoble’6 Thomas Lovell Beddoes’s ‘Fictitious Condition’Works CitedIndex

Brittany Pladek is Associate Professor of English at Marquette University.

‘Pladek’s book reaffirms the importance of the Romantic period in its identification of the era as witnessing the origin of New Critical ideas of unity and wholeness in literature and therapeutic holism in the health humanities. It places the literature of the period center stage in debates that are still ongoing now.’ Sharon Ruston, European Romantic Review

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1 Therapeutic Holism: The Persistence of Metaphor2 From John Stuart Mill to the Medical Humanities3 ‘Soothing Thoughts’: William Wordsworth and the Poetry of Relief4 Palliating Humanity in The Last Man5 John Keats’s ‘Sickness Not Ignoble’6 Thomas Lovell Beddoes’s ‘Fictitious Condition’Works CitedIndex