Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Dedication
- Introduction
- 1 Therapeutic Holism: The Persistence of Metaphor
- 2 From John Stuart Mill to the Medical Humanities
- 3 ‘Soothing Thoughts’: William Wordsworth and the Poetry of Relief
- 4 Palliating Humanity in The Last Man
- 5 John Keats’s ‘Sickness Not Ignoble’
- 6 Thomas Lovell Beddoes’s ‘Fictitious Condition’
- Bibliography
- Index
Acknowledgments
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Dedication
- Introduction
- 1 Therapeutic Holism: The Persistence of Metaphor
- 2 From John Stuart Mill to the Medical Humanities
- 3 ‘Soothing Thoughts’: William Wordsworth and the Poetry of Relief
- 4 Palliating Humanity in The Last Man
- 5 John Keats’s ‘Sickness Not Ignoble’
- 6 Thomas Lovell Beddoes’s ‘Fictitious Condition’
- Bibliography
- Index
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- The Poetics of PalliationRomantic Literary Therapy, 1790–1850, pp. vii - ixPublisher: Liverpool University PressPrint publication year: 2019