Romanticism, medicine and the natural supernatural: transcendent vision and bodily spectres, 1789-1852
Auteur :
Budge, Gavin
Éditeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN :
9781349315642
Date de publication :
1 janv. 2012
Dimensions :
21,6 x 14,0 cm
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
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.