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Wordsworth-Coleridge Circle and the Aesthetics of Disability

Inbunden, Engelska, 2017

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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the importance of lesser-studied work by authors including Charles Lamb and Thomas Beddoes, and introduces significant unpublished work by Tom Wedgwood.

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Utgivningsdatum2017-11-10
Mått148 x 210 x 28 mm
Vikt576 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SeriePalgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
Antal sidor337
Upplaga17001
FörlagPalgrave Macmillan
ISBN9781137511393

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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.-