Romanticism, Medicine and the Natural Supernatural Transcendent Vision and Bodily Spectres, 1789-1852
Description
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.
Keywords
Literary CriticismModern19th Century18th CenturyEuropeanSemiotics & TheorySocial ScienceLanguage Arts & DisciplinesLinguisticsHistorical & ComparativeRenaissanceAnthropologyCultural & Social
2012Book
Author(s)Gavin Budge
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan UK
ISBN9780230238466
LanguageEnglish
