The Poetics of Palliation: Romantic Literary Therapy, 1790-1850

by Birttany Pladek and B. Pladek

Book Overview

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"