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Romanticism, Medicine, and the Poet's Body

Author : James Robert Allard
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317061366

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That medicine becomes professionalized at the very moment that literature becomes "Romantic" is an important coincidence, and James Allard makes the most of it. His book restores the physical body to its proper place in Romantic studies by exploring the status of the human body during the period. With meticulous detail, he documents the way medical discourse consolidates a body susceptible to medical authority that is then represented in the works of Romantic era poets. In doing so, he attends not only to the history of medicine's professionalization but significantly to the rhetoric of legitimation that advances the authority of doctors over the bodies of patients and readers alike. After surveying trends in Romantic-era medicine and analyzing the body's treatment in key texts by Wordsworth and Joanna Baillie, Allard moves quickly to his central subject-the Poet-Physician. This hybrid figure, discovered in the works of the medically trained John Keats, John Thelwall, Thomas Lovell Beddoes, embodies the struggles occasioned by the discrepancies and affinities between medicine and poetry.

Romanticism, Medicine, and the Poet's Body

Author : James Robert Allard
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317061359

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Romanticism, Medicine, and the Poet's Body by James Robert Allard Pdf

That medicine becomes professionalized at the very moment that literature becomes "Romantic" is an important coincidence, and James Allard makes the most of it. His book restores the physical body to its proper place in Romantic studies by exploring the status of the human body during the period. With meticulous detail, he documents the way medical discourse consolidates a body susceptible to medical authority that is then represented in the works of Romantic era poets. In doing so, he attends not only to the history of medicine's professionalization but significantly to the rhetoric of legitimation that advances the authority of doctors over the bodies of patients and readers alike. After surveying trends in Romantic-era medicine and analyzing the body's treatment in key texts by Wordsworth and Joanna Baillie, Allard moves quickly to his central subject-the Poet-Physician. This hybrid figure, discovered in the works of the medically trained John Keats, John Thelwall, Thomas Lovell Beddoes, embodies the struggles occasioned by the discrepancies and affinities between medicine and poetry.

Romantic Medicine and John Keats

Author : Hermione De Almeida
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Literature and medicine
ISBN : 9780195063073

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Romantic Medicine and John Keats by Hermione De Almeida Pdf

Using original research in scientific treatises, philosophical manuscripts, and political documents, this pioneering study describes the neglected era of revolutionary medicine in Europe through the writings of the English poet and physician, John Keats. De Almeida explores the four primary concerns of Romantic medicine--the physician's task, the meaning of life, the prescription of disease and health, and the evolution of matter and mind--and reveals their expression in Keats's poetry and thought. By delineating a distinct but unknown era in the history of medicine, charting the poet's milieu within this age, and providing close reading of his poems in these contexts, Romantic Medicine and John Keats illustrates the interdisciplinary bonds between the two healing arts of the Romantic period: medicine and poetry.

Madness and the Romantic Poet

Author : James Whitehead
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780198733706

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Madness and the Romantic Poet by James Whitehead Pdf

Madness and the Romantic Poet examines the longstanding and enduringly popular idea that poetry is connected to madness and mental illness. The idea goes back to classical antiquity, but it was given new life at the turn of the nineteenth century. The book offers a new and much more complete history of its development than has previously been attempted, alongside important associated ideas about individual genius, creativity, the emotions, rationality, and the mind in extreme states or disorder - ideas that have been pervasive in modern popular culture. More specifically, the book tells the story of the initial growth and wider dissemination of the idea of the 'Romantic mad poet' in the nineteenth century, how (and why) this idea became so popular, and how it interacted with the very different fortunes in reception and reputation of Romantic poets, their poetry, and attacks on or defences of Romanticism as a cultural trend generally - again leaving a popular legacy that endured into the twentieth century. Material covered includes nineteenth-century journalism, early literary criticism, biography, medical and psychiatric literature, and poetry. A wide range of scientific (and pseudoscientific) thinkers are discussed alongside major Romantic authors, including Wordsworth, Coleridge, Blake, Hazlitt, Lamb, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Keats, Byron, and John Clare. Using this array of sources and figures, the book asks: was the Romantic mad genius just a sentimental stereotype or a romantic myth? Or does its long popularity tell us something serious about Romanticism and the role it has played, or has been given, in modern culture?

Embryology and the Rise of the Gothic Novel

Author : Diana Pérez Edelman
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030736484

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Embryology and the Rise of the Gothic Novel by Diana Pérez Edelman Pdf

This book argues that embryology and the reproductive sciences played a key role in the rise of the Gothic novel in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Diana Pérez Edelman dissects Horace Walpole’s use of embryological concepts in the development of his Gothic imagination and provides an overview of the conflict between preformation and epigenesis in the scientific community. The book then explores the ways in which Gothic literature can be read as epigenetic in its focus on internally sourced modes of identity, monstrosity, and endless narration. The chapters analyze Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto; Ann Radcliffe’s A Sicilian Romance, The Italian, and The Mysteries of Udolpho; Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein; Charles Robert Maturin’s Melmoth the Wanderer; and James Hogg’s Confessions of a Justified Sinner, arguing that these touchstones of the Gothic register why the Gothic emerged at that time and why it continues today: the mysteries of reproduction remain unsolved.

Romantic Autopsy

Author : Arden Hegele
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2022-01-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192848345

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Romantic Autopsy by Arden Hegele Pdf

This book considers a moment at the turn of the nineteenth century, when literature and medicine seemed embattled in rivalry, to find the fields collaborating to develop interpretive analogies that saw literary texts as organic bodies and anatomical features as legible texts.

Naturopathy in South India

Author : Eva Jansen
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-15
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9789004325104

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Naturopathy in South India by Eva Jansen Pdf

In Naturopathy in South India – Clinics between Professionalization and Empowerment Eva Jansen offers a rich ethnographic account of current naturopathic thinking and practices, and examines its complex history, multiple interpretations, and antagonisms.

John Keats and the Medical Imagination

Author : Nicholas Roe
Publisher : Springer
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2017-12-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783319638119

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John Keats and the Medical Imagination by Nicholas Roe Pdf

This book presents ten new chapters on John Keats's medical imagination, beginning with his practical engagement with dissection and surgery, and the extraordinary poems he wrote during his 'busy time' at Guy's Hospital 1815-17. The Physical Society at Guy's and the demands of a medical career are explored, as are the lyrical spheres of botany, melancholia, and Keats's strange oxymoronic poetics of suspended animation. Here too are links between surveillance of patients at Bedlam and of inner city streets that were walked by the poet of 'To Autumn'. The book concludes with a survey of multiple romantic pathologies of that most Keatsian of diseases, pulmonary tuberculosis.

Romantic Border Crossings

Author : Professor Jeffrey Cass,Professor Larry Peer
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781409489535

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Romantic Border Crossings by Professor Jeffrey Cass,Professor Larry Peer Pdf

Romantic Border Crossings participates in the important movement towards 'otherness' in Romanticism, by uncovering the intellectual and disciplinary anxieties that surround comparative studies of British, American, and European literature and culture. As this diverse group of essays demonstrates, we can now speak of a global Romanticism that encompasses emerging critical categories such as Romantic pedagogy, transatlantic studies, and transnationalism, with the result that 'new' works by writers marginalized by class, gender, race, or geography are invited into the canon at the same time that fresh readings of traditional texts emerge. Exemplifying these developments, the authors and topics examined include Elizabeth Inchbald, Lord Byron, Gérard de Nerval, English Jacobinism, Goethe, the Gothic, Orientalism, Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, Anglo-American conflicts, manifest destiny, and teaching romanticism. The collection constitutes a powerful rethinking of the divisions that continue to haunt Romantic studies.

The Poetry of Raymond Carver

Author : Sandra Lee Kleppe
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2016-02-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317020950

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The Poetry of Raymond Carver by Sandra Lee Kleppe Pdf

Best known as one of the great short story writers of the twentieth century, Raymond Carver also published several volumes of poetry and considered himself as much a poet as a fiction writer. Sandra Lee Kleppe combines comparative analysis with an in-depth examination of Carver’s poems, making a case for the quality of Carver’s poetic output and showing the central role Carver’s pursuit of poetry played in his career as a writer. Carver constructed his own organic literary system of 'autopoetics,' a concept connected to a paradigm shift in our understanding of the inter-relatedness of biological and cultural systems. This idea is seen as informing Carver’s entire production, and a distinguishing feature of Kleppe’s book is its contextualization of Carver’s poetry within the complex literary and scientific systems that influenced his development as a writer. Kleppe addresses the common themes and intertextual links between Carver’s poetry and short story careers, situates Carver’s poetry within the love poem tradition, explores the connections between neurology and poetic memories, and examines Carver’s use of the elegy genre within the context of his terminal illness. Tellingly, Carver’s poetry, which has aroused slight interest among literary scholars, is frequently taught to medical students. This testimony to the interdisciplinary implications of Carver’s work suggests the appropriateness of Kleppe’s culminating discussion of Carver’s work as a bridge between the fields of literature and medicine.

Romanticism, Medicine and the Natural Supernatural

Author : Gavin Budge
Publisher : Springer
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137284310

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Romanticism, Medicine and the Natural Supernatural by Gavin Budge Pdf

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.

The Romanticism Handbook

Author : Sue Chaplin,Joel Faflak
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2011-03-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781441107244

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The Romanticism Handbook by Sue Chaplin,Joel Faflak Pdf

A one-stop resource containing introductory material through to practical case studies in reading primary and secondary texts to introducing criticism and new directions in research.

Loving Literature

Author : Deidre Shauna Lynch
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2014-12-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780226183848

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Loving Literature by Deidre Shauna Lynch Pdf

One of the most common—and wounding—misconceptions about literary scholars today is that they simply don’t love books. While those actually working in literary studies can easily refute this claim, such a response risks obscuring a more fundamental question: why should they? That question led Deidre Shauna Lynch into the historical and cultural investigation of Loving Literature. How did it come to be that professional literary scholars are expected not just to study, but to love literature, and to inculcate that love in generations of students? What Lynch discovers is that books, and the attachments we form to them, have played a vital role in the formation of private life—that the love of literature, in other words, is deeply embedded in the history of literature. Yet at the same time, our love is neither self-evident nor ahistorical: our views of books as objects of affection have clear roots in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century publishing, reading habits, and domestic history. While never denying the very real feelings that warm our relationship to books, Loving Literature nonetheless serves as a riposte to those who use the phrase “the love of literature” as if its meaning were transparent. Lynch writes, “It is as if those on the side of love of literature had forgotten what literary texts themselves say about love’s edginess and complexities.” With this masterly volume, Lynch restores those edges and allows us to revel in those complexities.

Creating Romanticism

Author : S. Ruston
Publisher : Springer
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137264299

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Creating Romanticism by S. Ruston Pdf

This book argues that the term 'Romanticism' should be more culturally-inclusive, recognizing the importance of scientific and medical ideas that helped shape some of the key concepts of the period, such as natural rights, the creative imagination and the sublime.

Romantic Medicine and the Gothic Imagination

Author : Laura R. Kremmel
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2022-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781786838490

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Romantic Medicine and the Gothic Imagination by Laura R. Kremmel Pdf

This book debates a crossover between the Gothic and the medical imagination in the Romantic period. It explores the gore and uncertainty typical of medical experimentation, and expands the possibilities of medical theories in a speculative space by a focus on Gothic novels, short stories, poetry, drama and chapbooks. By comparing the Gothic’s collection of unsavoury tropes to morbid anatomy’s collection of diseased organs, the author argues that the Gothic’s prioritisation of fear and gore gives it access to nonnormative bodies, reallocating medical and narrative agency to bodies considered otherwise powerless. Each chapter pairs a trope with a critical medical debate, granting silenced bodies power over their own narratives: the reanimated corpse confronts fears about vitalism; the skeleton exposes fears about pain; the unreliable corpse feeds on fears of dissection; the devil redirects fears about disability; the dangerous narrative manipulates fears of contagion and vaccination.