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- Title: Diagnosing Romanticism.
- Author : English Studies in Canada
- Release Date : January 01, 2005
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 175 KB
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DISEASE IS THE MASTER TROPE OF THE ROMANTIC PERIOD. When poets, critics, and social commentators wrote about the state of current affairs, they consistently employed the paradigms of medical discourse to figure larger concerns about morality, class struggle, and sexual and state politics. Whether appraising the private body or the body politic, they used metaphors of illness and health in complex and often paradoxical ways. (1) This preoccupation with the body had been deeply engrained in the cultural imaginary of Britain throughout the eighteenth century. From INDIFFERENCE come! thy torpid juices shed On my keen sense.... Come, thou foe To sharp sensation, in thy cold embrace A death-like slumber shall a respite give To my long restless soul, tost on extreme, From bliss to pointed woe.
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