Romantic Medicine and John Keats

ISBN-13: 9780195063073 / Angielski / Twarda / 1990 / 432 str.

Hermione De Almeida

Opis

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.

Recenzje

'de Almeida shows how necessary it is to enter into the Romantic spirit with its speculative insights, imaginative leaps and intuition ... She identifies the chief concerns of Romantic medicine as the physician's task, the meaning of life, the definition of health and disease and the evolution of matter and mind. Her study of the expression of these in Keats' poetry is remarkable for its scholarship, close reading of the poems and a wealth of references linking medicine with other ideas and with literature ... de Almeida has made a major contridution to the study of Keats' poetry ... the book makes fascinating reading ... It will be of interest to scholars of Romantic poetry and social historians of the early nineteenth century.' Noel G. Coley, Open University, Social History of Medicine, Vol. 5, No. 3, December 1992