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  1. The Life of Breath in Literature, Culture and Medicine : Classical to Contemporary
    Contributor: Fuller, David (Publisher); Saunders, Corinne (Publisher); Macnaughton, Jane (Publisher)
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  Springer Nature

    This open access book studies breath and breathing in literature and culture and provides crucial insights into the history of medicine, health and the emotions, the foundations of beliefs concerning body, spirit and world, the connections between... more

     

    This open access book studies breath and breathing in literature and culture and provides crucial insights into the history of medicine, health and the emotions, the foundations of beliefs concerning body, spirit and world, the connections between breath and creativity and the phenomenology of breath and breathlessness. Contributions span the classical, medieval, early modern, Romantic, Victorian, modern and contemporary periods, drawing on medical writings, philosophy, theology and the visual arts as well as on literary, historical and cultural studies. The collection illustrates the complex significance and symbolic power of breath and breathlessness across time: breath is written deeply into ideas of nature, spirituality, emotion, creativity and being, and is inextricable from notions of consciousness, spirit, inspiration, voice, feeling, freedom and movement. The volume also demonstrates the long-standing connections between breath and place, politics and aesthetics, illuminating both contrasts and continuities.

     
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    Source: OAPEN
    Contributor: Fuller, David (Publisher); Saunders, Corinne (Publisher); Macnaughton, Jane (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 978-3-030-74443-4; 9783030744434
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    Subjects: Literature: history & criticism; History of science; Philosophy
    Other subjects: health humanities; medical humanities; breath in literature; COPD; breathlessness; literature and science; Open Access
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (555 p.)
  2. The poetics of palliation :
    romantic literary therapy, 1790-1850 /
    Author: Pladek, Brittany,
    Published: 2019.
    Publisher:  Liverpool University Press,, Liverpool :

    <div>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... more

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    Freie Universität Berlin, Universitätsbibliothek, Zentralbibliothek
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    Max-Planck-Institut für Bildungsforschung, Bibliothek und wissenschaftliche Information
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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 Shelley explored palliative forms of literary medicine: therapies that stressed literature's manifold relationship to pain and its power to sustain, comfort, and challenge even when cure was not possible. The book charts how Romantic writers developed these palliative poetics in conversation with their medical milieu. British medical ethics was first codified during the Romantic period. Its major writers, John Gregory and Thomas Percival, endorsed a palliative mandate to compensate for doctors' limited curative powers. Similarly, Romantic writers sought palliative approaches when their work failed to achieve starker curative goals. The startling diversity of their results illustrates how palliation offers a more comprehensive metric for literary therapy than the curative traditions we have inherited from Romanticism.

     

    'This erudite and beautifully written book stages a dialogue between historicist work on Romanticism and medicine, disability studies, and the emerging field of the health humanities. Starting from the premise that the Romantic period was the first to conceive of literature as the stuff of medical therapy, Pladek shows it was also the first to criticise a naïve version of that view. In five crisp chapters, she shows how writers as diverse as Coleridge, Wordsworth, Keats, Thomas Lovell Beddoes, John Stuart Mill and Mary Shelley thought of literature as a palliative, not a cure, for human suffering. In each of these discussions, she reveals how romantic literature anticipated some of the most controversial ideas in the health humanities today, notably the notion that to be effective medicine must treat the whole person, and she also traces fascinating genealogies of a great many ideas in modern medicine that are assumed to have no romantic pedigree. The result is an interdisciplinary dialogue of the first order and a literary tour de force.'

     

    Neil Vickers, University College London

     

    'The Poetics of Palliation offers a serious and expert engagement with the field of the health humanities as a legacy of Romantic literature and criticism. Extensively researched, it will be an invaluable resource for anyone interested the relationship between those two areas, as well as in the intertwined genealogies of therapeutic holism, the New Criticism, and certain strains of liberalism. A reparative reader in the sense proposed by Eve Sedgwick, Pladek maintains her commitment to literature's ability to give and to model care, but without assuming that it can - or should - cure.'

     
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    Source: Philologische Bibliothek, FU Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 1-78962-997-7; 1-78694-283-6
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    Series: Romantic reconfigurations : studies in literature and culture, 1780-1850
    Subjects: Literature and medicine; Literature and medicine; Literature, Modern; Literature, Modern; Psychology and literature; Psychology and literature; English literature; English literature; Romanticism
    Other subjects: health humanities; history of medicine; Romantic poetry; disability studies; New Criticism
    Scope: 1 online resource (ix, 279 pages) :, digital, PDF file(s).
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    Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 29 Jun 2020).

    Includes bibliographical references and index.