Romanticism, medicine, and the poet's body / James Robert Allard.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Allard, James Robert.

Contributor:

Hazel M. Hussong Fund.

Series:

Nineteenth century (Aldershot, England)

Nineteenth century

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--19th century--History and criticism.

English literature.

Medicine in literature.

Literature and medicine--England--History--19th century.

Literature and medicine.

Keats, John, 1795-1821--Knowledge and learning--Medicine.

Keats, John.

Keats, John, 1795-1821.

Thelwall, John, 1764-1834--Knowledge and learning--Medicine.

Thelwall, John.

Thelwall, John, 1764-1834.

Beddoes, Thomas Lovell, 1803-1849--Knowledge and learning--Medicine.

Beddoes, Thomas Lovell.

Beddoes, Thomas Lovell, 1803-1849.

Physicians as authors--England.

Physicians as authors.

Romanticism--Great Britain.

Romanticism.

History.

Great Britain.

England.

Physical Description:

viii, 166 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2007]

Contents:

Body conscious : vitalities, corporealities, and the anatomies of Romantic medicine

Flesh and blood : Wordsworth, Baillie, and the Romantic body

Great vital organs: Thelwall's The peripatetic, radical materialism, and the body politic

Shap'd and palpable : Keats and the poet's body

The body's laws : flesh, souls, and transgression in Beddoes's Death's jest-book

Apollo's poets.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [145]-159) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Hazel M. Hussong Fund.

ISBN:

9780754658917

0754658910

OCLC:

122526704