Romanticism, Medicine and the Natural Supernatural
Transcendent Vision and Bodily Spectres, 1789-1852
Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, British, Theory
| Author: | Gavin Budge | ISBN: | 9781137284310 |
| Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan UK | Publication: | October 17, 2012 |
| Imprint: | Palgrave Macmillan | Language: | English |
| Author: | Gavin Budge |
| ISBN: | 9781137284310 |
| Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan UK |
| Publication: | October 17, 2012 |
| Imprint: | Palgrave Macmillan |
| Language: | English |
This fascinating interdisciplinary study examines the relationship between literary interest in visionary kinds of experience and medical ideas about hallucination and the nerves in the first half of the nineteenth century, focusing on canonical Romantic authors, the work of women writers influenced by Romanticism, and visual culture.
This fascinating interdisciplinary study examines the relationship between literary interest in visionary kinds of experience and medical ideas about hallucination and the nerves in the first half of the nineteenth century, focusing on canonical Romantic authors, the work of women writers influenced by Romanticism, and visual culture.
