Romanticism, Medicine and the Natural Supernatural [electronic resource] : Transcendent Vision and Bodily Spectres, 1789-1852 /
Budge, Gavin.author.
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.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Radcliffe and the Spectral Scene of Reading; 2 Erasmus Darwin and Wordsworth's Poetics; 3 Indigestion and Coleridge's Medical Imagination; 4 Irritability and the Politics of Deerbrook; 5 Slavery and Mass Society in Uncle Tom's Cabin; 6 The Hallucination of the Real: Pre-Raphaelite Vision, Democracy and Masculinity; Conclusion: Nineteenth-Century Medicine and the Genealogy of English Studies; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-286) and index.
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.
Literature, Modern-19th century.
Literature, Modern-18th century.
British literature.
Literature-Philosophy.
Culture-Study and teaching.
Nineteenth-Century Literature.
Eighteenth-Century Literature.
British and Irish Literature.
Literary Theory.
Cultural Theory.