Romanticism, medicine and the natural supernatural : transcendent vision and bodily spectres, 1789-1852 / Gavin Budge.

  • Budge, Gavin.
Date:
2013
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Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

Physical description

viii, 295 pages ; 23 cm

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Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-286) and index.

Contents

Introduction -- Radcliffe and the spectral scene of reading -- Erasmus Darwin and Wordsworth's poetics -- Indigestion and Coleridge's medical imagination -- Irritability and the politics of Deerbrook -- Slavery and mass society in Uncle Tom's cabin -- The hallucination of the real: pre-Raphaelite vision, democracy and masculinity -- Conclusion: nineteenth-century medicine and the genealogy of English studies.

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  • 9780230238466
  • 0230238467