Romanticism, Medicine, and the Poet's Body

Allard, James Robert

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“…It is also typical of Romantic scholarship on health or medical topics. Exceptions do exist: recent work in Romantic DS (e.g., Emily B. Stanback's The Wordsworth ‐Coleridge circle and the aesthetics of disability , 2016) and some older studies of Romanticism's role in the rise of professional medicine (e.g., James Allard's Romanticism, medicine, and the poet's body , 2007) place the health of bodyminds front and center. I will discuss both at the end of this article.…”

Section: Romanticism and The Hhmentioning

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Health humanities and British Romanticism

Pladek

2021

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This article gives an overview of health humanities (HH) scholarship within British Romanticism as a literary historical field. Romantic literary studies has a peculiar relationship to HH work—one that justifies examining it separately from its adjacent fields, 18th‐century and Victorian studies. The article surveys HH work from the past 20 years of Romantic scholarship, drawing some conclusions about how the field's history has informed its current shape, before offering some tentative predictions about the future.

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Health humanities and British Romanticism

Pladek

2021

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“…Despite resistance to some aspects of globalisation and modern development, it is inevitable that previously isolated groups who have been 'away from modernisation', such as Indigenous Peoples, now engage in international contact, establish relationships and networks, and eventually become trans local in space and place (Allard, 2016;McKay, 2006). The concept of translocal and transnational modes of cultural reproduction proposes a dynamic and continually evolving view and experience of the global world through transgression of boundaries between spaces of very different scale and type, as well as through the re-creation of local distinctions between those spaces (Freitag & Oppen, 2010, p. 6).…”

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<i>Ili</i>-based Community Organising: An Igorot Indigenous Peoples’ Concept for Grassroots Collaboration

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Couch

2018

Journal of Social Inclusion

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Community development work in the Philippines evolved from its distinct social and political history. In the country's context, a strong civil society was instrumental in influencing politics and social life from the late 1960s to the mid-1980s, highlighted during the dictatorial rule of President Ferdinand and the People Power Revolution in 1986. The repressive situation resulted in the formation of Non-Government Organizations (NGOs) that aimed to organise the masses for two key different purposes: to wage armed and underground struggles against the regime, and to implement projects to help communities and lobby for sectoral reforms (Batistiana & Murphy, 1996). Cooperatives were formed, women's movements, peasants, fisher folks and Indigenous peoples were organised. Other venues of community development work were also explored such as livelihood, gender equality, ecology, alternative legal assistance, and support for migrant workers among others. The Cordillera Region, specifically the Province of Benguet where this research was conducted, are recipients of numerous community development projects implemented by government, NGOs and private agencies with local and international funding. As one of the authors of this article is an Ibaloy-Kankanaey Igorot woman, her experience of being both a

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“…It recalls, too, Arthur O. Lovejoy's still helpful suggestion to avoid, wherever possible, the unnecessary hypostatization of a term like “Romanticism,” or in this case “evolution,” as “some single real entity, or type of entities, to be found in nature” (8). In our opening article, Allard shows how the paratextual notes to Darwin's Temple of Nature stage an emergent form of interdisciplinarity in which science engages with poetry to produce a new mode of relationality – indeed a new language – that bridges what we now call the “two cultures” divide, but without privileging any one discipline. Expanding upon Darwin's playful marriage of the new sciences with literature, Connolly explores how the use of personification to describe plant reproduction in The Loves of Plants moves beyond normative heterosexual desire and towards transgressive interspecies analogies between plants, animals, and humans, analogies that reveal an altogether other form of desire that is capable of producing hybrid, evolving forms of life.…”

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“…In recent years, the field of Romantic science has emerged as a vibrant and diverse area of inquiry for studies of Romanticism, with compelling works by McLane, Richardson, Roe, Heringman, Jackson, Allard, Gigante, Kelley, Mitchell, and Fulford, Lee, and Kitson, amongst many others.…”

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Romantic Evolutions: Introduction

Lambier

2016

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Though the Romantic era is often imagined as the “age of revolution,” recent criticism in the field has seen renewed interest in Romanticism's relationship to evolution, including the resurgence of such topics as organicism, vitalism, natural history, and natural philosophy, as well as other salient themes from the physical and life sciences. This essay offers a contextual introduction for a cluster of articles around the topic of evolution as a concept for literary theory and criticism in Romantic studies, articles that focus critical attention on complex evolutionary ideas like contingency, chance, species transformation, monstrosity, extinction, and the inhuman. The aim of Romantic Evolutions is to reimagine prevailing notions of evolution by tracing their modern origins to literary, cultural, and scientific discourses of the transitional period 1775–1859, a time that witnessed the genesis of the modern idea of “literature” alongside of the emergence of specialized disciplines, such as geology, biology, physiology, chemistry, psychology, and anthropology. Instead of searching through 18th‐ and early 19th‐century science for “forerunners” to the Darwinian revolution, the essays in the volume focus attention on the important contributions of Romantic poets, philosophers, and scientists who have too often been overlooked by the empirical sciences. And yet, by shifting the central focus away from Darwin and his theory of natural selection, contributors also revisit his relationship to Romanticism with fresh eyes. Taken together, the volume seeks to provoke a reevaluation of our current understanding of the Romantic conception of evolution, one that will open new critical perspectives and orientations for scholars within and beyond the field.

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Romanticism, Medicine, and the Poet's Body

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Health humanities and British Romanticism

Health humanities and British Romanticism

<i>Ili</i>-based Community Organising: An Igorot Indigenous Peoples’ Concept for Grassroots Collaboration

Romantic Evolutions: Introduction

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