Liberating medicine, 1720-1835 [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Tristanne Connolly and Steve Clark
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| Titolo: |
Liberating medicine, 1720-1835 [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Tristanne Connolly and Steve Clark
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| Pubblicazione: | London, : Pickering & Chatto, 2009 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (335 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 820.93561 |
| Soggetto topico: | Literature and medicine - Great Britain - History - 18th century |
| English literature - 18th century - History and criticism | |
| Medicine in literature | |
| Enlightenment - Great Britain | |
| Literature and medicine - Great Britain - History - 19th century | |
| English literature - 19th century - History and criticism | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Altri autori: |
ConnollyTristanne J. <1970->
ClarkS. H <1957-> (Steven H.)
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| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Includes revised versions of papers presented at the joint conference of the British Association for Romanticism Studies and the North American Association for the Study of Romanticism (BARS/NASSR), "Emancipation, Liberation and Freedom", held in Bristol, England, July 2007. | |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-312) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Acknowledgements; Contributors; List of Figures; Introduction; 1. Liberation and Consumption; 2. Freedom, Health, and Hypochondria in Ignatius Sancho's Letters; 3. 'Uncle-Tommery'; 4. 'Due Preparations'; 5. An Organic Body Politic; 6. Blake, Liberation and Medicine; 7. Untying the Web of Urizen; 8. 'In Sickness, Despair, and in Agony'; 9. Disembodied Souls and Exemplary Narratives; 10. Idiotic Associations; 11. Authority and Imposture; 12. George Stubb's Dissection of the Horse and the Expressiveness of 'Facsimiles'; 13. In Submission; 14. The Surprising Success of Dr Armstrong |
| 15. Anna Barbauld's 'To a Little Invisible Being...'16. 'Some Heart Once Pregnant with Celestial Fire'; Notes; Works Cited; Index | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | A collection of sixteen essays that focus on meanings within eighteenth century medical narratives. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Liberating medicine, 1720-1835 |
| ISBN: | 1-317-31612-6 |
| 1-282-12550-8 | |
| 9786612125508 | |
| 1-85196-692-7 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910454002803321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Enlightenment world ; ; no. 10.