Eighteenth Century in Motion

Abstract: Kevis Goodman's Pathologies of Motion: Historical Thinking in Medicine, Aesthetics, and Poetics approaches environmental medicine, aesthetic philosophy, and Romantic poetics as allied, overlapping, though not identical, bodies of knowledge engaged in apprehending the relationship between the movement of people and the corresponding physiological motions in their bodies. This introduction highlights the book's contribution to our understanding of the connection between people and place, and, more broadly, the affective dimensions of mobility in the Romantic era and beyond.