The Wordsworth-Coleridge Circle and the Aesthetics of Disability

This book argues for the importance of disability to authors of the Wordsworth-Coleridge circle. By examining texts in a variety of genres — ranging from self-experimental medical texts to lyric poetry to metaphysical essays — Stanback demonstrates the extent to which non-normative embodiment was central to Romantic-era thought and Romantic-era aesthetics. The book reassesses well-known literary and medical works by such authors as William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Humphry Davy, argues for the importance of lesser-studied work by authors including Charles Lamb and Thomas Beddoes, and introduces significant unpublished work by Tom Wedgwood.

• ISBN: 978-1-137-51139-3
• Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 326
• Fecha Publicación: 04/06/2017
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés