City of health, fields of disease : revolutions in the poetry, medicine, and philosophy of romanticism / / Martin Wallen

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910466336803321
• Autore: Wallen Martin
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2016
• ISBN: 1-138-27762-2; 1-315-26019-0; 1-351-95131-9
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (213 pages) : illustrations
• Collana: Nineteenth century series
• Disciplina: 820.93561
• Soggetti: English literature - 19th century - History and criticism; Diseases in literature; Literature and medicine - Great Britain - History - 19th century; Medicine - Great Britain - History - 19th century; Romanticism - England; Health in literature; Medicine in literature; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: First published 2004 by Ashgate Publishing.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 1. Lyrical health in Wordsworth and Coleridge -- 2. Coleridge's scrofulous dejection -- 3. The medical frame of character and the enforcement of normative health in Thomas Beddoes' 'Observations on the character and writings of John Brown, M.D.' -- 4. A secret excitement : Coleridge, John Brown, and the chance for a physical imagination -- 5. Schelling's medical singing school in the Yearbooks of medicine as science -- 6. The electromagnetic orgasm and history outside the city.