James Kennaway
Biographic Data
| ID | 3587308 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James Kennaway |
| GIVEN NAMES | James |
| FAMILY NAME | Kennaway |
| SIGNATURE | KENNAWAY J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Groningen |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Die Wirkliche Gefahr Liegt in Der Erosion Der Autonomie»
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Mind Control
Epilogue. The Turn that Never Happened? Cartesianism and Mind-Body Relationships
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Viktoria Tkaczyk, Thinking with Sound
Journal Article Viktoria Tkaczyk, Thinking with Sound: A New Program in the Sciences and Humanities Around 1900 Get access Viktoria Tkaczyk, Thinking with Sound: A New Program in the Sciences and Humanities Around 1900, Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2023. Pp. 304. $55. Hdbk. ISBN 978-0-2268-2328-7. James Kennaway James Kennaway Department of History, University of Groningen, the Netherlands [email protected] Search for other works by this…
Lifestyle and Medicine in the Enlightenment
The biggest challenges in public health today are often related to attitudes, diet and exercise. In many ways, this marks a return to the state of medicine in the eighteenth century, when ideals of healthy living were a much more central part of the European consciousness than they have become since the advent of modern clinical medicine. Enlightenment advice on healthy lifestyle was often still discussed in terms of the six non-naturals – airs a…
Celts under the Knife
The nineteenth century saw an extensive cult of the heroic fortitude of the British soldier in surgery. Tales of men laughing through unanaesthetised operations were endlessly repeated in newspapers, military memoirs, surgical literature and boy's own stories. However, the identity of the "British soldier" was by no means obvious, since the British state itself was multi-ethnic. This paper considers thinking on the 'natural' martial qualities of …
Military surgery as national romance
This paper shows the ways that tales of stoicism during surgery at the Battle of Waterloo came to be a significant part of the ideological framework of Romantic Militarism. Celebrating the killing of enemies clashed with ideals of politeness, but hailing a soldier's powers of endurance in surgery was an acceptable way of extolling courage, framing lived experience of agony into narratives of exalted pain, masculine fortitude and quasi-religious p…
The Routledge Companion to Music, Mind and Well-Being
In recent decades, the relationship between music, emotions, health and well-being has become a hot topic. Scientific research and new neuro-imaging technologies have provided extraordinary new insights into how music affects our brains and bodies, and researchers in fields ranging from psychology and music therapy to history and sociology have turned their attention to the question of how music relates to mind, body, feelings and health, generat…
Routledge Companion to Music, Mind, and Well-Being
Experiencing, Exploiting, and Evacuating Bile
This article examines how sufferers experienced, understood, and expressed themselves as bilious, focusing on the late Georgian era when the disease became one of the most fashionable and oft diagnosed amongst the elites. We show that responses to bile were more complex, varied, and less credulous than contemporary diatribes and subsequent historiography imply. Nonetheless, we foreground the socioculturally negotiated elements of the malady rathe…
The Grand Organ of Sympathy’
Although the nerves have often been at the centre of the historiographical discussion of the so-called fashionable diseases of Georgian Britain, the stomach and digestion have at least as much claim for consideration. Associations between excessive consumption and elite status lent a touch of glamour to digestive problems, while creating the basis for a critique that depicted stomach maladies as the result of excess, greed and immorality. The fir…
Celles qu'on n'entend pas sont plus douces
L'historiographie s'est intéressée jusqu'ici aux hallucinations musicales en lien avec les débuts de la médecine moderne, si bien que le xixe siècle a été considéré comme une période charnière marquant une rupture : les conceptions mystiques auraient été supplantées par une approche scientifique attribuant aux hallucinations le statut de symptômes. Mais la réalité est plus complexe, et cet article montre de quelle façon les différents discours - …
Those unheard are sweeter
The historiography of musical hallucinations has hitherto focused on the origins of modern medical investigations of the subject. This has led to a view of the nineteenth century as a break in continuity in which ambivalent mystical conceptions were replaced by scientific perspectives of them as a symptom. This paper looks at the complex attitudes towards the phenomenon in the period, showing how religious, semi-scientific, romantic and medical d…
Two Kinds of “Literary Poison”
This article will analyze the complex relationship between two separate traditions of anxiety about the medical impact of reading. On the one hand there was the older concept of the diseases of the learned (Gelehrtenkrankheiten), associated with crabbed, often impecunious academics. This is a tradition that went back centuries and drew on the six non-naturals of Galenic medicine. On the other hand there was fear that the sentimental novel-reading…
Introduction
Introduction:Pathological Reading James Kennaway (bio) and Anita O’Connell (bio) Of all the connections between literature and medicine, arguably one of the most intriguing but neglected is the idea that reading can in itself be a cause of disease. It seemed to the editors of this themed issue that it would be apt for a journal called Literature and Medicine to examine this key aspect of the interaction between the two halves of its title. The de…
Music Asylums
Journal Article Music Asylums: Wellbeing through Music in Everyday Life. By Tia DeNora Get access Music Asylums: Wellbeing through Music in Everyday Life. By Tia DeNora. Pp. xiv + 164. Music and Change: Ecological Perspectives. ( Ashgate, Farnham, Surrey and Burlington, VT, 2013. £50. ISBN 978-1-4094-3759-8.) James Kennaway James Kennaway Newcastle University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Music and Lette…
Music and the Nerves, 1700–1900
The relationship between music and the nervous system is now the subject of intense interest for scientists and people in the humanities, but this is by no means a new phenomenon. This volume sets out
From Sensibility to Pathology
Healing powers have been ascribed to music at least since David's lyre, but a systematic discourse of pathological music emerged only at the end of the eighteenth century. At that time, concerns about the moral threat posed by music were partly replaced by the idea that it could over-stimulate a vulnerable nervous system, leading to illness, immorality, and even death. During the Enlightenment, the relationship between the nerves and music was mo…
Musical Hypnosis
Music has long been associated with trance states, but very little has been written about the modern western discussion of music as a form of hypnosis or 'brainwashing'. However, from Mesmer's use of the glass armonica to the supposed dangers of subliminal messages in heavy metal, the idea that music can overwhelm listeners' self-control has been a recurrent theme. In particular, the concepts of automatic response and conditioned reflex have been…
Stimulating Music
Far from being a purely modern idea, the notion of "electric music" was already common in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The shift in thinking about music from cosmic harmony to nervous stimulation made metaphors and speculative theories relating music and electricity irresistible. This essay considers the development of the idea of electric music, looking at its associations with a sexual "body electric." It will then examine how this …
From Sensibility to Pathology
Healing powers have been ascribed to music at least since David's lyre, but a systematic discourse of pathological music emerged only at the end of the eighteenth century. At that time, concerns about the moral threat posed by music were partly replaced by the idea that it could over-stimulate a vulnerable nervous system, leading to illness, immorality, and even death. During the Enlightenment, the relationship between the nerves and music was mo…
Musical Hypnosis
Music has long been associated with trance states, but very little has been written about the modern western discussion of music as a form of hypnosis or 'brainwashing'. However, from Mesmer's use of the glass armonica to the supposed dangers of subliminal messages in heavy metal, the idea that music can overwhelm listeners' self-control has been a recurrent theme. In particular, the concepts of automatic response and conditioned reflex have been…
Military surgery as national romance
This paper shows the ways that tales of stoicism during surgery at the Battle of Waterloo came to be a significant part of the ideological framework of Romantic Militarism. Celebrating the killing of enemies clashed with ideals of politeness, but hailing a soldier's powers of endurance in surgery was an acceptable way of extolling courage, framing lived experience of agony into narratives of exalted pain, masculine fortitude and quasi-religious p…
The Grand Organ of Sympathy’
Although the nerves have often been at the centre of the historiographical discussion of the so-called fashionable diseases of Georgian Britain, the stomach and digestion have at least as much claim for consideration. Associations between excessive consumption and elite status lent a touch of glamour to digestive problems, while creating the basis for a critique that depicted stomach maladies as the result of excess, greed and immorality. The fir…
Musical Hypnosis
Music has long been associated with trance states, but very little has been written about the modern western discussion of music as a form of hypnosis or 'brainwashing'. However, from Mesmer's use of the glass armonica to the supposed dangers of subliminal messages in heavy metal, the idea that music can overwhelm listeners' self-control has been a recurrent theme. In particular, the concepts of automatic response and conditioned reflex have been…
Stimulating Music
Far from being a purely modern idea, the notion of "electric music" was already common in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The shift in thinking about music from cosmic harmony to nervous stimulation made metaphors and speculative theories relating music and electricity irresistible. This essay considers the development of the idea of electric music, looking at its associations with a sexual "body electric." It will then examine how this …
From Sensibility to Pathology
Healing powers have been ascribed to music at least since David's lyre, but a systematic discourse of pathological music emerged only at the end of the eighteenth century. At that time, concerns about the moral threat posed by music were partly replaced by the idea that it could over-stimulate a vulnerable nervous system, leading to illness, immorality, and even death. During the Enlightenment, the relationship between the nerves and music was mo…
Music and the Nerves, 1700–1900
The relationship between music and the nervous system is now the subject of intense interest for scientists and people in the humanities, but this is by no means a new phenomenon. This volume sets out
Music Asylums
Journal Article Music Asylums: Wellbeing through Music in Everyday Life. By Tia DeNora Get access Music Asylums: Wellbeing through Music in Everyday Life. By Tia DeNora. Pp. xiv + 164. Music and Change: Ecological Perspectives. ( Ashgate, Farnham, Surrey and Burlington, VT, 2013. £50. ISBN 978-1-4094-3759-8.) James Kennaway James Kennaway Newcastle University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Music and Lette…
Two Kinds of “Literary Poison”
This article will analyze the complex relationship between two separate traditions of anxiety about the medical impact of reading. On the one hand there was the older concept of the diseases of the learned (Gelehrtenkrankheiten), associated with crabbed, often impecunious academics. This is a tradition that went back centuries and drew on the six non-naturals of Galenic medicine. On the other hand there was fear that the sentimental novel-reading…
Introduction
Introduction:Pathological Reading James Kennaway (bio) and Anita O’Connell (bio) Of all the connections between literature and medicine, arguably one of the most intriguing but neglected is the idea that reading can in itself be a cause of disease. It seemed to the editors of this themed issue that it would be apt for a journal called Literature and Medicine to examine this key aspect of the interaction between the two halves of its title. The de…
Experiencing, Exploiting, and Evacuating Bile
This article examines how sufferers experienced, understood, and expressed themselves as bilious, focusing on the late Georgian era when the disease became one of the most fashionable and oft diagnosed amongst the elites. We show that responses to bile were more complex, varied, and less credulous than contemporary diatribes and subsequent historiography imply. Nonetheless, we foreground the socioculturally negotiated elements of the malady rathe…
The Grand Organ of Sympathy’
Although the nerves have often been at the centre of the historiographical discussion of the so-called fashionable diseases of Georgian Britain, the stomach and digestion have at least as much claim for consideration. Associations between excessive consumption and elite status lent a touch of glamour to digestive problems, while creating the basis for a critique that depicted stomach maladies as the result of excess, greed and immorality. The fir…
Celles qu'on n'entend pas sont plus douces
L'historiographie s'est intéressée jusqu'ici aux hallucinations musicales en lien avec les débuts de la médecine moderne, si bien que le xixe siècle a été considéré comme une période charnière marquant une rupture : les conceptions mystiques auraient été supplantées par une approche scientifique attribuant aux hallucinations le statut de symptômes. Mais la réalité est plus complexe, et cet article montre de quelle façon les différents discours - …
Those unheard are sweeter
The historiography of musical hallucinations has hitherto focused on the origins of modern medical investigations of the subject. This has led to a view of the nineteenth century as a break in continuity in which ambivalent mystical conceptions were replaced by scientific perspectives of them as a symptom. This paper looks at the complex attitudes towards the phenomenon in the period, showing how religious, semi-scientific, romantic and medical d…
The Routledge Companion to Music, Mind and Well-Being
In recent decades, the relationship between music, emotions, health and well-being has become a hot topic. Scientific research and new neuro-imaging technologies have provided extraordinary new insights into how music affects our brains and bodies, and researchers in fields ranging from psychology and music therapy to history and sociology have turned their attention to the question of how music relates to mind, body, feelings and health, generat…
Routledge Companion to Music, Mind, and Well-Being
Lifestyle and Medicine in the Enlightenment
The biggest challenges in public health today are often related to attitudes, diet and exercise. In many ways, this marks a return to the state of medicine in the eighteenth century, when ideals of healthy living were a much more central part of the European consciousness than they have become since the advent of modern clinical medicine. Enlightenment advice on healthy lifestyle was often still discussed in terms of the six non-naturals – airs a…
Celts under the Knife
The nineteenth century saw an extensive cult of the heroic fortitude of the British soldier in surgery. Tales of men laughing through unanaesthetised operations were endlessly repeated in newspapers, military memoirs, surgical literature and boy's own stories. However, the identity of the "British soldier" was by no means obvious, since the British state itself was multi-ethnic. This paper considers thinking on the 'natural' martial qualities of …
Military surgery as national romance
This paper shows the ways that tales of stoicism during surgery at the Battle of Waterloo came to be a significant part of the ideological framework of Romantic Militarism. Celebrating the killing of enemies clashed with ideals of politeness, but hailing a soldier's powers of endurance in surgery was an acceptable way of extolling courage, framing lived experience of agony into narratives of exalted pain, masculine fortitude and quasi-religious p…
Epilogue. The Turn that Never Happened? Cartesianism and Mind-Body Relationships
die tijd kunt u het nummer los bestellen bij de uitgever voor €7,70 of door een één jarig abonnement te nemen voor €29
Viktoria Tkaczyk, Thinking with Sound
Journal Article Viktoria Tkaczyk, Thinking with Sound: A New Program in the Sciences and Humanities Around 1900 Get access Viktoria Tkaczyk, Thinking with Sound: A New Program in the Sciences and Humanities Around 1900, Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2023. Pp. 304. $55. Hdbk. ISBN 978-0-2268-2328-7. James Kennaway James Kennaway Department of History, University of Groningen, the Netherlands [email protected] Search for other works by this…
Die Wirkliche Gefahr Liegt in Der Erosion Der Autonomie»
Von ‹harter› Zu ‹sanfter› Gehirnwäsche
Mind Control
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