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Pathologies of motion : historical thinking in medicine, aesthetics, and poetics / Kevis Goodman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Goodman, Kevis, author.
- Series:
- The Lewis Walpole series in eighteenth-century culture and history.
- The Lewis Walpole series in eighteenth-century culture and history
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Science--Aesthetics.
- Science.
- Pathology--History.
- Pathology.
- Aesthetics--18th century.
- Aesthetics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (ix, 305 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven : Yale University Press, [2023]
- Summary:
- An original study of late Enlightenment aesthetics, poetics, and environmental medicine as overlapping ways of comprehending the dislocations of historical existence lodged in the movements of bodies and minds.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- One “A Multitude of Causes” The Mediation of the Nerves and Medical Semiotics
- Two “An Uncertain Disease” The Matter of Nostalgia
- Three. Nostalgia’s Counteraesthetic Force in Eighteenth-Century Aesthetic Theory
- Four. Reading Motions Poetry and Pathologies of Volition around 1800
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Acknowledgments
- Index
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on June 1, 2023)
- ISBN:
- 9780300268645
- OCLC:
- 1350452579
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