Seeing Suffering in Women's Literature of the Romantic Era - Rilegato

Dolan, Elizabeth A.

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ISBN 10: 0754654915 ISBN 13: 9780754654919

Casa editrice: Routledge, 2008

Riassunto

Arguing that vision was the dominant mode for understanding suffering in the Romantic era, Elizabeth A. Dolan shows that Mary Wollstonecraft, Charlotte Smith, and Mary Shelley experimented with aesthetic and scientific visual methods in order to expose the social structures underlying suffering. Dolan's exploration of illness, healing, and social justice in the writings of these three authors depends on two major questions: How do women writers' innovations in literary form make visible previously unseen suffering? And, how do women authors portray embodied vision to claim literary authority? Dolan's research encompasses a wide range of primary sources in science and medicine, including nosology, health travel, botany, and ophthalmology, allowing her to map the resonances and disjunctions between medical theory and literature. This in turn points towards a revisioning of enduring themes in Romanticism such as the figure of the Romantic poet, the relationship between the mind and nature, sensibility and sympathy, solitude and sociability, landscape aesthetics, the reform novel, and Romantic-era science. Dolan's book is distinguished by its deep engagement with several disciplines and genres, making it a key text for understanding Romanticism, the history of medicine, and the position of the woman writer during the period.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Elizabeth A. Dolan is associate professor of English at Lehigh University, USA.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Routledge
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0754654915
• ISBN 13: 9780754654919
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 260