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Record Nr.

UNINA9910792776703321

Autore

Wallen Martin

Titolo

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

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

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.