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Romantic Medicine and John Keats by Hermione de Almeida (Repost)

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Romantic Medicine and John Keats by Hermione de Almeida (Repost)

Romantic Medicine and John Keats by Hermione de Almeida
English | Nov 15, 1990 | ISBN: 0195063074 | 432 Pages | PDF | 25,7 MB

Using original research in scientific treatises, philosophical manuscripts, and political documents, this pioneering study describes the neglected era of revolutionary medicine in Europe through the writings of the English poet and physician, John Keats. De Almeida explores the four primary concerns of Romantic medicine–the physician's task, the meaning of life, the prescription of disease and health, and the evolution of matter and mind–and reveals their expression in Keats's poetry and thought. By delineating a distinct but unknown era in the history of medicine, charting the poet's milieu within this age, and providing close reading of his poems in these contexts, Romantic Medicine and John Keats illustrates the interdisciplinary bonds between the two healing arts of the Romantic period: medicine and poetry.

Reviews:

"Highly original, colorful, obsessively industrious….It profoundly alters our perception of Keats's imaginative inspiration….De Almeida makes one think again about Romanticism and that is no mean feat. She has said something new about Keats, she has taken risks of interpretation, she has minutely reconstructed not merely a scientific culture but a scientific emotion, a frame of mind we have almost lost."–New York Review of Books

"A rich, detailed study….A book which qualifies as that all-too-rare phenomenon: a genuinely original contribution to Keats and Romantic studies….Provides a wealth of information and suggestive commentary that scholars and critics will be learning from and drawing on for years to come."–Journal of English and Germanic Philology

"An impressive and enlightening piece of work."–Studies in English Literature

"The argument and the ambitious research that supports it generate a multiplicity of new insights into the poetry….The book is a remarkable achievement….She has here made a major contribution to our understanding of Keats and the Romantic period."–The Romantic Movement

"A significant contribution not only to Keats studies but to the intellectual history of the Romantic Period."–Keats-Shelley Journal