A physiology of the imagination: Romanticism, pathology, transcendence

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