Romantic poets grew to understand bodies as anything from means of communication with the divine to the source of their identity just as medicine became a profession. As a result physicians and poets
That medicine becomes professionalized at the very moment that literature becomes "Romantic" is an important coincidence, and James Allard makes the most of it. His book restores the physical body to
The relationship between pain and theater in English drama is explored by scholars mostly of English literature. A main concern is to show how pain, which is a perennial companion through all the ages
