ISBN:
9781137511409
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (XV, 337 p, online resource)
Series Statement:
Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
Series Statement:
SpringerLink
Series Statement:
Bücher
Series Statement:
Springer eBook Collection
Series Statement:
Literature, Cultural and Media Studies
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Stanback, Emily B. The Wordsworth-Coleridge circle and the aesthetics of disability
Parallel Title:
Printed edition
Keywords:
Literature
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Literature, Modern 19th century
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Poetry
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British literature
;
Literature—History and criticism.
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English literature / History and criticism / 19th century
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Disabilities in literature
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Romanticism
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Hochschulschrift
;
Englisch
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Literatur
;
Behinderung
;
Das Romantische
;
Englisch
;
Literatur
;
Behinderung
;
Das Romantische
Abstract:
This book argues for the importance of disability to authors of the Wordsworth-Coleridge circle. By examining texts in a variety of genres - ranging from self-experimental medical texts to lyric poetry to metaphysical essays - Stanback demonstrates the extent to which non-normative embodiment was central to Romantic-era thought and Romantic-era aesthetics. 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the importance of lesser-studied work by authors including Charles Lamb and Thomas Beddoes, and introduces significant unpublished work by Tom Wedgwood
Abstract:
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.-
DOI:
10.1057/978-1-137-51140-9
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