A physiology of the imagination: Romanticism, pathology, transcendence
- Collection:
- NLM Publications and Productions
- Series Title(s):
- History of Medicine seminar
- Contributor(s):
- Sha, Richard C. National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
- Publication:
- [Bethesda, Md.] : National Library of Medicine, 2007
- Language(s):
- English
- Format:
- Moving image
- Subject(s):
- Imagination -- physiology History of Medicine History, 18th Century History, 19th Century Philosophy, Medical Psychophysiologic Disorders
- Genre(s):
- Lecture
- Abstract:
- (Producer) From 1750-1830, the imagination was relentlessly linked to all sorts of troublesome medical issues, including madness, nymphomania, and epilepsy. This talk seeks to understand how poets like Keats and Shelley could hold such faith in the imagination as the means to transcendence. Rather than seeing the pathology of the imagination as antithetical to its powers of transcendence, the talk considers how disease gave the imagination undeniable somatic effects, effects that could work for good as well as ill.
- Copyright:
- The National Library of Medicine believes this item to be in the public domain. (More information)
- Extent:
- 063 min.
- Color:
- Color
- Sound:
- Sound
- Credits:
- Introduction, Elizabeth Fee ; speaker, Richard C. Sha.
- Provenance:
- Received: Feb. 22, 2007; transfer; from Stephen Greenberg, librarian, History of Medicine Division, National Library of Medicine.
- Technique:
- Live action
- NLM Unique ID:
- 101300281 (See catalog record)
- OCLC no.:
- 136302981
- Permanent Link:
- http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101300281