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Author Pladek, B., author.

Title The poetics of palliation : romantic literary therapy, 1790-1850 / Brittany Pladek.

Publication Info. Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2019.

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 279 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series Romantic reconfigurations : studies in literature and culture 1780-1850
Romantic reconfigurations.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary The Poetics of Palliation argues that Romanticism developed richer literary therapies than its contemporary reception remembers. By reading Romantic writers against Georgian medical ethics, Poetics recovers their models of literature as comfort and sustenance, challenging a health humanities tradition that sees literary therapy primarily as cure.
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Subject Literature and medicine -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
Literature and medicine.
Great Britain.
History.
Chronological Term 18th century
Subject Literature and medicine -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Literature, Modern -- Appreciation -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
Literature, Modern -- Appreciation.
Literature, Modern -- Appreciation -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
Psychology and literature -- History -- 18th century.
Psychology and literature -- History -- 19th century.
English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism.
English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
Romanticism -- Great Britain.
Romanticism.
Psychology and literature.
Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900.
English literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Chronological Term 1700-1899
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
ISBN 9781786942838 (electronic book)
1786942836 (electronic book)
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