The Poetics of Palliation: Romantic Literary Therapy, 1790-1850
(Book #8 in the Romantic Reconfigurations Studies in Literature and Culture 1780-1850 Series)
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Can literature heal? The Poetics of Palliation argues that our answers to this question have origins in the Romantic period. In the past twenty years, health humanists and scholars of literature and medicine have drawn on Romantic ideas to argue that literature cures by making sufferers whole again. But this model oversimplifies how Romantic writers thought literature addressed suffering. Poetics documents how writers like William Wordsworth and Mary...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1800854781
ISBN13:9781800854789
Release Date:February 2022
Publisher:Liverpool University Press
Length:296 Pages
Weight:0.92 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"
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