Transcendent Vision and Bodily Spectres, 1789-1852
by
Gavin Budge
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2012
This fascinating interdisciplinary study examines the relationship between literary interest in visionary kinds of experience and medical ideas about hallucination and the nerves in the first half of the nineteenth century, focusing on canonical Romantic authors, the work of women writers influenced by Romanticism, and visual culture.