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The Wordsworth-Coleridge Circle and the Aesthetics of Disability

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  1. Emily B. Stanback

    1. English Department, University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MS, USA

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Introduction

    • Emily B. Stanback
    Pages 1-49

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 311-337
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This book argues for the importance of disability to authors of the Wordsworth-Coleridge circle. By examining texts in a variety of genres — ranging from self-experimental medical texts to lyric poetry to metaphysical essays — Stanback demonstrates the extent to which non-normative embodiment was central to Romantic-era thought and Romantic-era aesthetics. The book reassesses well-known literary and medical works by such authors as William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Humphry Davy, argues for the importance of lesser-studied work by authors including Charles Lamb and Thomas Beddoes, and introduces significant unpublished work by Tom Wedgwood.

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“This is a fascinating interdisciplinary study of the significance of the body – especially the non-normative, disabled body – in Romantic writing. Stanback reconfigures the poetry and aesthetics – but also the scientific writing – of the circle of intellectuals around Coleridge. She rehabilitates the researches of Davy and, especially, Tom Wedgwood as key factors in the development of Romanticism.” (Tim Fulford, De Montfort University, UK)

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  • English Department, University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MS, USA

    Emily B. Stanback

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Emily B. Stanback is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Southern Mississippi, USA. She researches and teaches at the intersections of British Romantic literature, Disability Studies, and the history of medicine.

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