Romanticism's Nervous Bodies and the Corporeal Imagination

3 credits

Imagination's centrality to Romantic literature is often construed as part of a devaluation of embodied life. This course reconsiders the imagination's embodiment in texts by Wordsworth, Coleridge, Wollstonecraft, Blake, Edgeworth, and the Shelleys in the context of Romantic medical sciences (neurology and anatomy) and hypochondriacal diseases (hysteria, indigestion, melancholy, racism). ***Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and either ENGL 110 or completion of 48 credit hours.***