The Wordsworth-Coleridge Circle and the Aesthetics of Disability (Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine)

This book argues for the importance of disability to authors of the Wordsworth-Coleridge circle. By examining texts in a variety of genres ù ranging from self-experimental medical texts to lyric poetry to metaphysical essays ù 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the importance of lesser-studied work by authors including Charles Lamb and Thomas Beddoes, and introduces significant unpublished work by Tom Wedgwood.

• | Author: Emily B. Stanback
• | Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• | Publication Date: Nov 10, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 352 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/Literary Criticism
• | ISBN-10: 1137511397
• | ISBN-13: 9781137511393