The poetics of palliation : romantic literary therapy, 1790-1850 / Brittany Pladek.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pladek, B., author.

Series:

Romantic reconfigurations

Romantic reconfigurations : studies in literature and culture 1780-1850

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature and medicine--Great Britain--History--18th century.

Literature and medicine.

Literature and medicine--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Psychology and literature.

History.

Literature, Modern--Appreciation.

Great Britain.

Literature, Modern--Appreciation--Great Britain--History--18th century.

Literature, Modern.

Literature, Modern--Appreciation--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Psychology and literature--History--18th century.

Psychology and literature--History--19th century.

English literature--18th century--History and criticism.

English literature.

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

Romanticism--Great Britain.

Romanticism.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History.

Physical Description:

ix, 279 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2019.

Contents:

1 Therapeutic Holism: The Persistence of Metaphor p. 29

2 From John Stuart Mill to the Medical Humanities p. 65

3 'Soothing Thoughts': William Wordsworth and the Poetry of Relief p. 96

4 Palliating Humanity in The Last Man p. 129

5 John Keats's 'Sickness Not Ignoble' p. 162

6 Thomas Lovell Beddoes's 'Fictitious Condition' p. 193.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1786942216

9781786942210

OCLC:

1055438527