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John Thelwall was London Corresponding Society's most prominent
orators and was tried for high treason along with Thomas Hardy and
John Horne Tooke in 1794. This edition brings together Thelwall's
most important political writing ranging from scientific pamphlets
and writings on the art of elocution, to political philosophy and
journalism.
John Thelwall was London Corresponding Society's most prominent
orators and was tried for high treason along with Thomas Hardy and
John Horne Tooke in 1794. This edition brings together Thelwall's
most important political writing ranging from scientific pamphlets
and writings on the art of elocution, to political philosophy and
journalism.
John Thelwall was London Corresponding Society's most prominent
orators and was tried for high treason along with Thomas Hardy and
John Horne Tooke in 1794. This edition brings together Thelwall's
most important political writing ranging from scientific pamphlets
and writings on the art of elocution, to political philosophy and
journalism.
John Thelwall was London Corresponding Society's most prominent
orators and was tried for high treason along with Thomas Hardy and
John Horne Tooke in 1794. This edition brings together Thelwall's
most important political writing ranging from scientific pamphlets
and writings on the art of elocution, to political philosophy and
journalism.
John Thelwall was London Corresponding Society's most prominent
orators and was tried for high treason along with Thomas Hardy and
John Horne Tooke in 1794. This edition brings together Thelwall's
most important political writing ranging from scientific pamphlets
and writings on the art of elocution, to political philosophy and
journalism.
The texts in this unique collection range from the gothic revival
of the late eighteenth century through to the late Victorian
gothic, and from the poetry of Wordsworth and Coleridge to the
short fiction of H.G. Wells and Henry James. Genres represented
include medievalist poetry, psychological thrillers, dark political
dystopias, sinister tales of social corruption, and popular ghost
tales. The texts gathered here show the contradictory and
paradoxical nature of gothic literature, and suggest that gothic
""monsters"" emerge from our own desires and fears. In addition to
a wide selection of classic and lesser-known texts from the
eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Gothic Evolutions includes key
examples of the aesthetic, scientific, and cultural theory related
to the Gothic, from John Locke and David Hume to Sigmund Freud and
Julia Kristeva.
Including poems by writers from the dawn of the Early Modern period
to the 21st Century, this anthology explores changing attitudes to
medicine, health and the body. A Body of Work: An Anthology of
Poetry and Medicine is divided into nine thematic sections,
including poetry from all periods as well as historical documents
that help students place the poetry in its cultural contexts and
covering such topics as: -The material body -Nerves, nervous
disorders and psychology -Consumption: food, drugs and alcohol
-Contagion and disease -Doctors, hospitals and the experience of
medicine -Treatments and cures -The body in pleasure and pain
-Evolution, genetics and reproduction -Ageing, dying and death "A
Body of Work "is supported by a companion website offering further
contextual essays, class discussion questions and visual
material.Includes work by such poets as: Daniel Abse, Maya Angelou,
Matthew Arnold, W.H. Auden, Ann Bradstreet, William Blake, Charles
Bukowski, Raymond Carver, S.T Coleridge, Erasmus Darwin, Emily
Dickinson, T.S. Eliot, Allen Ginsberg, Seamus Heaney, Philip
Larkin, Robert Lowell, Paul Muldoon, Sylvia Plath, Rainer Maria
Rilke, Theodore Roetke, Christina Rossetti, Jo Shapcott, Jonathan
Swift, Michael Symmons-Roberts, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Walt Whitman,
William Carlos Williams, William Wordsworth.
This book explores the important connections between medicine and
political culture that often have been overlooked. In response to
the French revolution and British radicalism, political
propagandists adopted a scientific vocabulary and medical images
for their own purposes. New ideas about anatomy and pathology,
sexuality and reproduction, cleanliness and contamination, and diet
and drink migrated into politics in often startling ways, and to
significant effect. These ideas were used to identify individuals
as normal or pathological, and as "naturally" suitable or
unsuitable for public life. This migration has had profound
consequences for how we measure the bodies, practices and abilities
of public figures and ourselves.
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