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Romanticism, Medicine and the Natural Supernatural

Transcendent Vision and Bodily Spectres, 1789-1852
By:Gavin Budge
Publisher:Springer Nature
Print ISBN:9780230238466
eText ISBN:9781137284310
Edition:0
Copyright:2012
Format:Page Fidelity

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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.