Seeing Suffering in Women's Literature of the Romantic Era
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Common Language
Didactic Children's Literature
Didactic Children’s Literature
Eighteenth Century Medical Writers
elegiac
Elegiac Sonnets
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Fictional Ethnography
gendered authorship
George III
Golden Eyes
Human Suffering
Individual Subject's Body
Individual Subject’s Body
Jemima's Story
Jemima’s Story
Linnaean Botany
literary trauma studies
Lovely Maniac
Male Melancholic
Medicinal Botany
Melancholic Genius
Romantic period medicine
Rural Walks
Scientific Botany
scientific botany therapy
sensibility and sympathy
Solitary Wanderer
sonnets
Spa Regimen
Sympathetic Contagion
Sympathetic Gaze
visual culture history
William Lisle
Wollstonecraft's Original Stories
Wollstonecraft’s Original Stories
women writers medical humanities
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9780754654919
- Weight: 657g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 29 Aug 2008
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
Elizabeth A. Dolan is associate professor of English at Lehigh University, USA.
