Shelley and Vitality /

Shelley and Vitality reassesses Percy Shelley's engagement with early nineteenth-century science and medicine, specifically his knowledge and use of theories on the nature of life presented in the debate between surgeons John Abernethy and William Lawrence. Sharon Ruston offers new biographical...

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Main Author:	Ruston, Sharon (Author)
Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
Subjects:	Literature. British and Irish Literature. Eighteenth-Century Literature. Life Sciences, general. Nineteenth-Century Literature. Poetry and Poetics. British literature. Life sciences. Literature, Modern > 18th century. Literature, Modern > 19th century. Poetry. Electronic books.
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Summary:	Shelley and Vitality reassesses Percy Shelley's engagement with early nineteenth-century science and medicine, specifically his knowledge and use of theories on the nature of life presented in the debate between surgeons John Abernethy and William Lawrence. Sharon Ruston offers new biographical information to link Shelley to a medical circle and explores the ways in which Shelley exploits the language and ideas of vitality. Major canonical works are reconsidered to address Shelley's politicised understanding of contemporary scientific discourse.
Item Description:	Electronic resource.
Physical Description:	1 online resource (XVII, 231 pages)
ISBN:	9780230505186
DOI:	10.1057/9780230505186