The Life of Breath in Literature, Culture and Medicine : : Classical to Contemporary.

• Superior document: Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine Series
• Author: Fuller, David.
• TeilnehmendeR: Saunders, Corinne.; Macnaughton, Jane.
• Place / Publishing House: Cham : : Springer International Publishing AG,, 2021.; ©2021.
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (558 pages)

Table of Contents

• Intro
• Praise for The Life of Breath in Literature, Culture and Medicine
• Contents
• List of Illustrations
• Acknowledgements
• Notes on Contributors
• 1 The Life of Breath: Contexts and Approaches
• Contexts and Approaches: 'The Age of the Breath'?
• The Life of Breath Project
• The Life of Breath: From Classical to Contemporary
• Selected Bibliography
• Part I The Classical Period
• 2 Pneumatic Episodes from Homer to Galen
• Introduction
• Breath and Life in the Earliest Greek Literature
• Air/Breath/Wind as Life Force in Early Greek Philosophy and Medicine
• Breath, Blood, and Respiration in Early Greek Thought
• Breath/pneuma as Life-Generating Substance
• Galen on the Use of Breathing and the Causes of Breathlessness
• Conclusion
• Bibliography
• 3 Our Common Breath: 'Conspiration' from the Stoics to the Church Fathers
• Bibliography
• 4 Late Antique Cultures of Breath: Politics and the Holy Spirit
• Breath and Human Difference in Late Antique Rome
• The Holy Spirit and Breath
• Conclusion
• Bibliography
• Part II The Medieval Period
• 5 From Romance to Vision: The Life of Breath in Medieval Literary Texts
• Breath, Pneuma, and Embodied Being
• Fainting Hearts
• Awakening Life
• Swooning into Vision
• Selected Bibliography
• 6 The Transformative Power of Breath: Music, Alternative Therapy, and Medieval Practices of Contemplation
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• Selected Bibliography
• 7 A Breath of Fresh Air: Approaches to Environmental Health in Late Medieval Urban Communities
• Selected Bibliography
• Part III The Early Modern Period
• 8 'Being Breathed': From King Lear to Clinical Medicine
• I
• II
• III
• IV
• Seleted Bibliography
• 9 'Let Lovers Sigh Out the Rest': Witnessing the Breath in the Early Modern Emotional Body
• Selected Bibliography.
• 10 What Is 'the Breath of Our Nostrils'? Ruach and Neshamah in John Donne's 1622 Gunpowder Day Sermon
• Bibliography
• Part IV The Eighteenth Century
• 11 Breathscapes: Natural Environments in Eighteenth-Century Physiology and Psychosomatics of Breathing
• Respiration in Eighteenth-Century Medicine
• The Psychosomatics of Indoor Breathing
• Conclusion
• Selected Bibliography
• 12 'Spoken from the Impulse of the Moment': Epistolarity, Sensibility, and Breath in Frances Burney's Evelina
• Selected Bibliography
• 13 'Eloquence and Oracle': Tobacco in Eighteenth-Century Life and Literature
• A Deep History of Tobacco in Lowland South America
• Tobacco Constituting Persons, Shifting Shapes, and Changing Perspectives
• Tobacco Generates Dualisms
• Tobacco in Enlightenment Life and Thought
• The Stupefying Pleasures and Material Sociality of Tobacco
• Tobacco and Embodied Cognition
• Tobacco and the Scientific Separation of 'Facts' and 'Values'
• 'It'-Narratives and the Poetry of Attention-Changing Perspectives?
• The Silence of Tobacco
• Conclusion
• Selected Bibliography
• Part V The Romantic and Victorian Periods
• 14 Romantic Consumption: The Paradox of Fashionable Breath
• Fashionable Consumptive Breath
• Alastor and Romantic Death-Fashionable Breath
• Conclusions
• Selected Bibliography
• 15 Endless Breath? The Pipe Organ and Immortality
• Selected Bibliography
• 16 London Fog as Food: From Pabulum to Poison
• Selected Bibliography
• 17 'Now-for a breath I tarry': Breath, Desire, and Queer Materialism at the fin de siècle
• Sexology, Embodiment, and Breath: Atmungstypus Männlich
• A. E. Housman: 'Beneath the Suffocating Night'
• John Addington Symonds: 'I Seem to Feel the Aura in Him'
• Walter Pater: 'Fade Out of the World like a Breath'
• Selected Bibliography
• Part VI The Twentieth Century.
• 18 The Forgotten Obvious: Breathing in Psychoanalysis
• Vagitus-Rattles
• On the Self-Steering Respiration
• Jung's Pneumograph
• Against Breath: Freud and the Foreclosed Symptom
• Nasus-Interruptus
• The Wolfman
• Respiratory Erotism
• Conclusion: Respiration and Personality
• Selected Bibliography
• 19 Mysterious Gear: Modernist Mountaineering, Oxygen Rigs, and the Politics of Breath
• Selected Bibliography
• 20 Hearing the Form: Breath and the Structures of Poetry in Charles Olson and Paul Celan
• Selected Bibliography
• 21 A Panting Consciousness: Beckett, Breath, and Biocognitive Feedback
• Breath and Consciousness: A Co-dependent Intimacy
• The 'I-Breathe': Agency, Time-Consciousness, and Biocognitive Tempos
• Breathing Mediacy: Knowing, Experiencing, Witnessing
• Knowing, Experiencing, Witnessing
• Conclusion
• Selected Bibliography
• Part VII The Twenty-First Century
• 22 Syllabic Gasps: M. NourbeSe Philip and Charles Olson's Poetic Conspiration
• Selected Bibliography
• 23 Visualising the Ephemeral
• Part 1: A History in Epitomes
• Part 2: My Own Work-in the Laboratory
• in Hospital and Hospice
• Selected Bibliography
• 24 Breath-As Subject, in Form, in Performance: An Interview with Michael Symmons Roberts
• Selected Bibliography
• 25 Afterword: Breath-Taking-Ethical Impulses for Breath Studies
• Conspiration and Conspiracies
• Capacities
• Inscriptions
• (Dis)Placements
• Conspirations and Common
• Selected Bibliography
• Index.