Shelley and vitality /
"Shelley and Vitality reassesses Percy Shelley's engagement with late eighteenth-and early nineteenth-century science and medicine, specifically his knowledge and use of theories on the nature of life presented in the debate between surgeons John Abernathy and William Lawrence. Sharon Rust...
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Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2005.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : a new dawn
- 1. The vitality debate, 1814-19
- 2. Shelley's knowledge of the 'science of life'
- 3. The political body : Prometheus unbound
- 4. 'The painted veil' : defining life
- 5. 'The poetry of life'.