The Wordsworth-Coleridge Circle and the Aesthetics of Disability

By Emily B Stanback

This book argues for the importance of disability to authors of the Wordsworth-Coleridge circle. By examining texts in a variety of genres - ranging from self-experimental medical texts to lyric poetry to metaphysical essays - Stanback demonstrates the extent to which non-normative embodiment was central to Romantic-era thought and Romantic-era aesthetics. The book reassesses well-known literary and medical works by such authors as William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Humphry Davy, argues for the importance of lesser-studied work by authors including Charles Lamb and Thomas Beddoes, and introduces significant unpublished work by Tom Wedgwood.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1137511397
• ISBN13: 9781137511393
• Release Date: November 2017
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 337 Pages
• Weight: 1.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.3"