Romanticism, medicine, and the poet's body
By: by James Robert Allard.
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Burlington, VT
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780754658917
Subjects: Keats, John, -- 1795-1821 -- Knowledge -- Medicine; Thelwall, John, -- 1764-1834 -- Knowledge -- Medicine; Beddoes, Thomas Lovell, -- 1803-1849 -- Knowledge -- Medicine; English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Medicine in literature; Literature and medicine -- England -- History -- 19th century; Physicians as authors -- England; Romanticism -- Great Britain
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Body conscious: vitalities, corporealities, and the anatomies of romantic medicine; title: Flesh and blood: Wordsworth, Baillie, and the romantic body; title: Great vital organs: Thelwall's The peripatetic, radical materialism, and the body politic; title: Shap'd and palpable: Keats and the poet's body; title: The body's laws: flesh, souls, and transgression in Beddoes's Death's jest-book; title: Apollo's poets.