Andrew Mangham

The Science of Starving in Victorian Literature, Medicine, and Political Economy

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Studying works by Charles Kingsley, Elizabeth Gaskell, and Charles Dickens, this volume illustrates how the Victorians used medicine and literature to develop a new way of thinking about starvation and the State.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Juni 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 155mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9780198850038
• ISBN-10: 0198850034
• Artikelnr.: 58409158

Autorenporträt

Andrew Mangham is Professor of Victorian Literature and Medical Humanities at the University of Reading. His books on the intersection between medicine and literature include Dickens's Forensic Realism (2017) and Violent Women and Sensation Fiction (2007). He is editor of Literature and Medicine in the Nineteenth Century (2020) and The Cambridge Companion to Sensation Fiction (2013). He has also co-edited, with Daniel Lea, The Male Body in Medicine and Literature (2018) and, with Greta Depledge, The Female Body in Medicine and Literature (2011).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1: Starvation Science and Political Economy
2: Charles Kingsley 'The Symbolism and Dignity of Matter'
3: Elizabeth Gaskell: 'Clemming'
Charles Dickens: 'Nothink and Starwation'
Conclusion