Romanticism, Medicine, and the Poet's Body - Hardback - 2007

Documents the way medical discourse consolidates a body susceptible to medical authority that is then represented in the works of Romantic era poets. After surveying trends in Romanticera medicine and analyzing the bodys treatment in key texts by Wordsworth and Joanna Baillie, the author moves quickly to his central subject the PoetPhysician.
Year of publication: 2007
Pagination: 210 pages
Format: Hardback
Serie: The Nineteenth Century Series