Literature and Medicine: Volume 2 (eBook, ePUB)

The Nineteenth Century
Redaktion: Lawlor, Clark

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Offering an authoritative account of the relationship between literature and medicine between approximately 1800 and 1900, this volume brings together leading scholars in the field to provide a valuable overview of how two dynamic fields influenced and shaped each during a period of revolutionary change. During the nineteenth century, medicine was being redefined as a subject in which experimental methodologies could transform the healing art, and was simultaneously branching off into new specialisms and subdivisions. Questions addressed in this volume include the influence of physics on poetry, the role of medical professionalism in fiction, the cultural and literary representation of sanitation, and the interdisciplinary nature of controversy and negligence. Along with its sister publication, Literature and Medicine in the Eighteenth Century, this volume offers a major critical overview of the study of literature and medicine.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Juni 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108356350
• Artikelnr.: 62734970

Autorenporträt

Andrew Mangham is Professor of Victorian Literature and Medical Humanities at the University of Reading. He is the author of Violent Women and Sensation Fiction (2007), Dickens's Forensic Realism (2016) and The Science of Starving (2020). He has edited the Cambridge Companion to Sensation Fiction (2013), The Female Body in Medicine and Literature (2011) and The Male Body in Medicine and Literature (2018).

Inhaltsangabe

List of Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Literature and
Medicine in the Nineteenth Century Andrew Mangham; Part I. Epistemologies:
1. Modes of Realism in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Medicine Meegan
Kennedy; 2. Experimentalism in Late-Victorian Novels Anne Stiles; 3.
Exhibiting Bodies: Museums, Collecting and Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century
Literature Verity Burke; 4. 'All Kinds of Carcasses I Have Cut Up': Anatomy
in Nineteenth-century Gothic Fiction Laurence Talairach; Part II.
Professionalisation: 5. Physic and Metaphysics: Poetry and the Unsteady
Ascent of Professional Medicine Daniel Brown; 6. Class, Sexuality, and the
Victorian Nurse Arlene Young; 7. Controversy: Pharmacology and Uncertainty
in Nineteenth-century Medicine and Fiction Keir Waddington and Martin
Willis; Part III. Responses: 8. Disorders of the Age: Nervous Climates
Sally Shuttleworth and Melissa Dickson; 9. Medicine, Sanitary Reform and
Literature of Urban Poverty Andrew Mangham; 10. Flexible Bodies, Astral
Minds: Gendered Mind-body Practices and Colonial Medicine Narin Hassan; 11.
The Other 'Other Victorians': Normative Sexualities in Victorian Literature
Pamela K. Gilbert; 12. Physical 'Wholeness' and 'Incompleteness' in
Victorian Prosthesis Narratives Ryan Sweet; Index.