The Wordsworth-Coleridge Circle and the Aesthetics of Disability (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781137511393)

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the importance of lesser-studied work by authors including Charles Lamb and Thomas Beddoes, and introduces significant unpublished work by Tom Wedgwood.

Author: Emily B. Stanback
ISBN-10: 1137511397
ISBN-13: 9781137511393
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 11/10/2017
Pages: 337
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.27lbs
Size: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.81d