Wounds and Wonder
Emotion, Imagination and War in the Cultures of Romantic Surgery
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21789662 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michael Brown (0000-0003-3839-9822, University of Roehampton, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 43 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 239-259 |
| Publication date | 2020-06-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1754-0194 • E-ISSN: 1754-0208 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/1754-0208.12684 |
| PMID | 32625245 |
| OpenAlex | W3000343410 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 11 |
This article uses the writings of the surgical siblings John and Charles Bell to explore the relationships between surgery, war and emotion in the Romantic era. Drawing on the argument that it was in this period that war came to be constructed as the ‘ultimate' emotional experience, rich in pathos and distinct from anything in civil life, it argues that surgeons such as the Bells might capitalise on the cultural cachet of war to bridge the professional and experiential divide between the civil and military spheres, but that this process was fraught with complexity and ambiguity, both politically and emotionally
Aesthetics · Ambiguity · Art · Experiential learning · Literature · Pathos · Political science · Psychoanalysis · Romance · Sociology · Spanish Civil War · Wonder · Historical Psychiatry and Medical Practices · History · History of Emotions Research · Law · Medical History and Innovations · Medicine · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology · Surgery
| Citations per year | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2020 - 2026 (7) |
| Highly cited | No |