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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Reviews
“Literary critics and historians of medicine will learn much from Gavin Budge’s wide-ranging and erudite study, which argues that Romantic medicine influenced writers from Coleridge through Hazlitt to Martineau, Stowe through Carlyle to the Pre-Raphaelites. … I learned a good deal from this study.” (Richard C. Sha, The British Society for Literature and Science, bsls.ac.uk, December, 2015)
"Budge's provocative attention to the productive nature of illness is just one of the ways that this impressive monograph advances Romantic studies... What is most remarkable about this study is the impressive research that grounds it. Indeed, Budge demonstrates an immense wealth of learning in English and American nineteenth-century literature, the history of medicine and religion, and criticism from a range of perspectives about his topics... even when Budge gestures to familiar critical and literary territory, he offers fresh interpretations of his topic... Overall, Romanticism, Medicine and the Natural Supernatural is a welcome addition to the growing body of Romantic criticism on medicine and nineteenth-century literature. By approaching bodily illness as a source of literary inspiration,
providing an enormously detailed literary, historical, and critical context for his readings, and expanding our notion of 'Romantic' to cover a wide range of years, Budge encourages his audience to reconsider the many ways that nineteenth-century writers
imagined their bodies in relation to the rapidly changing and increasingly authoritative medical views of them." Michelle Faubert, 1650-1850
Authors and Affiliations
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University of Hertfordshire, UK
Gavin Budge
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Romanticism, Medicine and the Natural Supernatural
Book Subtitle: Transcendent Vision and Bodily Spectres, 1789-1852
Authors: Gavin Budge
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137284310
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2012
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-23846-6Published: 17 October 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-31564-2Published: 01 January 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-28431-0Published: 17 October 2012
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 295
Topics: Nineteenth-Century Literature, Eighteenth-Century Literature, British and Irish Literature, Literary Theory, Cultural Theory