沙发上的女人重新审视伊丽莎白-巴雷特-勃朗宁的疾病

Humanities Pub Date : 2024-07-17 DOI:10.3390/h13040094
Isadora Quirarte-Ruvalcaba
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伊丽莎白-巴雷特-勃朗宁(Elizabeth Barrett Browning,1806-1861 年)是一位传奇色彩浓厚的诗人,她的形象大多是一个隐居的病人。巴雷特-勃朗宁的病和死从她自己的时代起就被浪漫化了,各种传言和理论大多集中在她的病被 "爱""奇迹般地驱散",然后才逐渐复发,夺去了诗人的生命。本文对巴雷特-勃朗宁的疾病提出了另一种截然不同的诊断,认为巴雷特-勃朗宁的疾病可能是肺部先天畸形,但由于当时医疗技术的匮乏,这种疾病一直被误诊。本文介绍并比较了巴雷特-勃朗宁的医生、当代和死后传记作者以及其他学者对她的诊断,以及我自己的假设。此外,我们还重新评估了巴雷特-布朗宁对吗啡的依赖性,以探讨吗啡对她病情的影响,以及吗啡加重甚至导致她某些症状的可能性。这一重新评估还探讨了吗啡在巴雷特-勃朗宁之死中所扮演的角色,暗示了罗伯特-勃朗宁可能忽视了吗啡的意外过量使用。
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The Lady on the Sofa: Revisiting Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Illness
If there is one poet who has been widely represented under a legendary light, it is Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861), mostly through the figure of a secluded invalid. Barrett Browning’s illness and death have been romanticised ever since her own time, with multiple rumours and theories mostly focusing on the fact that her illness was ‘miraculously dispelled’ by ‘love’ and only reappeared gradually to take the poet’s life. This article proposes yet another and quite different diagnosis for Barrett Browning’s illness, theorising on the possibility that Barrett Browning’s ailment was a pulmonary congenital malformation, which remained misdiagnosed due to the lack of medical technology at the time. Several of the diagnoses given to Barrett Browning by her medical practitioners, contemporary and posthumous biographers and other scholars are presented and compared, alongside my own hypothesis. In addition, Barrett Browning’s arguable morphine dependency is reassessed in order to explore its impact on her illness, with the possibility that it exacerbated or even caused some of her symptoms. This reassessment also explores the role that morphine played in Barrett Browning’s death, suggesting an accidental overdose possibly overlooked by Robert Browning.
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