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City Of Health, Fields Of Disease: Revolutions In The Poetry, Medicine, And Philosophy Of Romanticism (the Nineteenth Century Series) by Martin Wallen is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
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"Wallen shows how actual definitions of health and disease changed at the turn of the nineteenth century and provides an analysis of the metaphorical uses to which romantic thinkers put these different definitions in their attempts to value or devalue competing concepts of individuality, poetic expression, and history. Key to the redefinition of these concepts was the use of the rhetoric of medicine to add value to those statements considered desirable and to undermine those targeted for elimina
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Martin Wallen
- Publisher
- Ashgate Publishing Limited
- Published
- 2004
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780754635420
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Literary Criticism, Literary Fiction, Poetry
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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