Title: CITY OF HEALTH, FIELDS OF DISEASE: REVOLUTIONS IN THE POETRY, MEDICINE, & PHILOSOPHY OF ROMANTICISM
Description: "The Romantic Era witnessed a series of conflicts concerning definitions of health and disease. In this book, Martin Wallen discusses those conflicts and the cultural values that drove them. The six chapters progress from the mainstream rejuvenation of the Socratic values by Wordsworth and Coleridge to the radical alternatives offered by the Scottish theorist, John Brown, and the speculative German philosopher, F.W.J. Schelling."

"Wallen shows how actual definitions of health and disease changed at the turn of the nineteenth century and provides an analysis of the metaphorical uses to which romantic thinkers put these different definitions in their attempts to value or devalue competing concepts of individuality, poetic expression, and history. Key to the redefinition of these concepts was the use of the rhetoric of medicine to add value to those statements considered desirable and to undermine those targeted for elimination from public discourse."--Jacket.
Subjects: Schelling, friedrich wilhelm joseph von, 1775-1854, Coleridge, samuel taylor, 1772-1834, Wordsworth, william, 1770-1850, Diseases in literature, Medicine in literature, English literature, History and criticism, Literature and medicine, History, Knowledge, Medicine, Romanticism, Health in literature, Littérature anglaise, Histoire et critique, Maladies dans la littérature, Littérature et médecine, Histoire, Médecine, Romantisme, Médecine dans la littérature, Santé dans la littérature, LITERARY CRITICISM, European, English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Elementa medicinae (Brown, John), Knowledge and learning, Attitude to Health, History, 19th Century, Modern Literature