Title The poetics of palliation : romantic literary therapy, 1790-1850 / Brittany Pladek

Published Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2019

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 279 pages) Series Romantic reconfigurations : studies in literature and culture 1780-1850 Romantic reconfigurations. Summary The Poetics of Palliation argues that Romanticism developed richer literary therapies than its contemporary reception remembers. By reading Romantic writers against Georgian medical ethics, Poetics recovers their models of literature as comfort and sustenance, challenging a health humanities tradition that sees literary therapy primarily as cure Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO; viewed July 18, 2019) Subject Literature and medicine -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century Literature and medicine -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century Literature, Modern -- Appreciation -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century Literature, Modern -- Appreciation -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century Psychology and literature -- History -- 18th century Psychology and literature -- History -- 19th century English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism Romanticism -- Great Britain Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900. LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. English literature Literature and medicine Literature, Modern -- Appreciation Psychology and literature Romanticism Great Britain Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781786942838 1786942836

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