Romanticism, Medicine and the Natural Supernatural: Transcendent Vision and Bodily Spectres, 1789-1852

Budge, Gavin

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.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2012-10-17

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9780230238466

DOI: 10.1057/9781137284310

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 295