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Contents Dedication ii Title Page iii Contents v Acknowledgements vii Introduction: Bodytalk 2 I Romantic(izing) Bodies Chapter One Body Conscious: Vitalities, Corporealities, and the Anatomies of Romantic Medicine 38 Chapter Two ¿Flesh and Blood¿: Wordsworth, Baillie, and the Romantic Body 84 II Embodying Romanticisms Chapter Three ¿Great Vital Organs¿: Thelwall¿s The Peripatetic, Radical Materialism, and the Body Politic 121 Chapter Four ¿Shap¿d and Palpable¿: Keats and the Poet¿s Body 168 Chapter Five ¿The Body¿s Laws¿: Flesh, Souls, and Transgression in Beddoes¿s Death¿s Jest-Book 217 III Coda Apollo¿s Poets 272 Works Cited 280 Acknowledgements Parts of Chapter Three appeared as ¿John Thelwall and the Politics of Medicine¿ in European Romantic Review (volume 15, number 1, March 2004, pages 73-87); thanks to the editors and to Taylor and Francis for permission to include that material here. Thanks also to the Wellcome Library for permission to reproduce Plate 4, ¿Second Stage of Dissection: Torso¿ from Charles Bell¿s A System of Dissections, Explaining the Anatomy of the Human Body (1798-1800) on the front cover. The University of Waterloo, the Ontario Graduate Scholarship Program, the Social Sciences and Humanities Council of Canada, the Humanities Research Institute at Brock University, and the Office of Research Services at Brock all provided funding toward the completion of this project; my thanks to all of them. First thanks go to those who helped bring this project to life in its earliest stages: Katherine Acheson, Richard Holmes, and especially Steven Bruhm offered thoughtful comments on earlier drafts. Joel Faflak continues to provide an extraordinary perceptiveness and a level of encouragement that I hope one day be able to offer in return. I¿m not sure any acknowledgment can do justice to Julia Wright. Whatever value this work may have has been nurtured by her astonishing gifts as a scholar and mentor; whatever gifts I hope to possess as a scholar and mentor will have been, if not inherited, than certainly molded by her on-going sharpness of insight and generosity of spirit. Any faults, of course, remain my own. I have benefitted immeasurably from the faculty, staff, and students at the schools with which I¿ve been involved, and, among those mentioned elsewhere in these acknowledgments, I wish to thank Dominick Grace (now at Brescia College), Karl Jirgens (now at the University of Windsor), Robert D¿Amato, and John Abbott, at Algoma University College; Dennis Denisoff (now at Ryerson University), Randy Harris, Jason Haslam (now at Dalhousie University), Michael Higgins, Jackie Macpherson, Kevin McGuirk, Neil Randall, Glenn Stillar, Margaret Towell, and Mark Wallin at the University of Waterloo; Alan Bewell at the University of Toronto; and Rob Alexander, Tim Conley, Martin Danahay, Neta Gordon, Rosemary Hale, Ann Howey, John Lye, Mathew Martin, Angela Mills, Jackie Rea, Marilyn Rose, John Sainsbury, Elizabeth Sauer, Barbara Seeber, and Susan Spearey at Brock University. From my first days as a graduate student I have been welcomed by the community of Romantic scholars; a more generous, interested, rigorous, and supportive community would be difficult to find. I want here to name just a few of those who made direct contributions to this project (sometimes without knowing it): David Clark, Jeffrey Cox, Alex Dick, Angela Easterhammer, Michelle Faubert, Michael Gamer, George Grinnell, Greg Kucich, Beth Lau, Mark Lussier, Peter Melville, Tilottama Rajan, Nicholas Roe, Charles Rzepka, Michael Scrivener, Charles Snodgrass, Judith Thompson, Dan White, and Paul Youngquist. To you, and to all of those I missed, my thanks. Vincent Newey, Joanne Shattock, and especially Ann Donahue at Ashgate also deserve special mention. Finally, while professional debts can (at least most of the time) be recognized, personal ones are both harder to acknowledge and still harder to repay. I count my debts to Evelyn Schoahs, my tenth-grade English teacher who passed away just as I was beginning to write the dissertation that became this book, as among the most profound. My family has always been a constant source of support and inspiration: my parents Bob and Shirley; my brother Mike, his wife Nicole, and my niece and goddaughter Lauren; my parents-in-law Franca and Armando and brother-in-law Luca. To all of you my love and thanks. Finally, last only because she¿s first, I thank Adriana. It¿s no exaggeration to say that she made the completion of this project possible, not least because she reminds me every day in both word and action--sometimes with anxious concern, often with not-so-feigned exasperation, always with love--that I have a life outside of the library and away from the computer . . . a life I hold to be all the more precious because it¿s spent with her. Ti amo, bella.
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
Medicine in literature.
Literature and medicine -- England -- History -- 19th century.
Keats, John, 1795-1821 -- Knowledge -- Medicine.
Thelwall, John, 1764-1834 -- Knowledge -- Medicine.
Beddoes, Thomas Lovell, 1803-1849 -- Knowledge -- Medicine.
Physicians as authors -- England.
Romanticism -- Great Britain.