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Autore |
Stanback Emily B |
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Titolo |
The Wordsworth-Coleridge Circle and the Aesthetics of Disability [[electronic resource] /] / by Emily B. Stanback |
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London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2016 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed. 2016.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (XV, 337 p.) |
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Collana |
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Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine, , 2634-6435 |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Literature, Modern—19th century |
Poetry |
British literature |
Literature—History and criticism |
Nineteenth-Century Literature |
Poetry and Poetics |
British and Irish Literature |
Literary History |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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List of figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. Citizen Thelwall and Thomas Beddoes M.D.: Romantic Medicines, Disability, and ‘Health’ -- 2. Pneumatic Self-Experimentation and the Aesthetics of Deviant Embodiment -- 3. ‘an almost painful exquisiteness of Taste’: Wedgwood’s Pleasure and His Body in Pain -- 4. Between the Author ‘Disabled’ and the Coleridgean Imagination: STC’s Epistolary Pathographies -- 5. Wordsworthian Encounters: Sympathy, Admonishment, and the Aesthetics of Human Difference -- 6. ‘queer points’ and ‘answering needles’: Lamb’s Spectacular Metropolitanism and Modern Disability -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.-. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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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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