The Wordsworth-Coleridge Circle and the Aesthetics of Disability [[electronic resource] /] / by Emily B. Stanback

• Autore: Stanback Emily B
• Pubblicazione: London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2016
• Edizione: 1st ed. 2016.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (XV, 337 p.)
• Disciplina: 809.034
• Soggetto topico: Literature, Modern—19th century; Poetry; British literature; Literature—History and criticism; Nineteenth-Century Literature; Poetry and Poetics; British and Irish Literature; Literary History
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.-.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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the importance of lesser-studied work by authors including Charles Lamb and Thomas Beddoes, and introduces significant unpublished work by Tom Wedgwood.
• Titolo autorizzato: The Wordsworth-Coleridge Circle and the Aesthetics of Disability
• ISBN: 1-137-51140-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910255228103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine, . 2634-6435