Poetics of Palliation - Romantic Literary Therapy, 17901850

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.

About the author

Brittany Pladek is Assistant Professor of English, Marquette University.

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.

Product details

• Authors: Birttany Pladek, Brittany Pladek
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2019
• EAN: 9781786942210
• ISBN: 978-1-78694-221-0
• No. of pages: 296
• Series: Romantic Reconfigurations: Studies in Literature and Culture 1780-1850; Romantic Reconfigurations Stud; Romantic Reconfigurations: Studies in Literature and Culture 1780-1850; Romantic Reconfigurations Stud
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies