UID:
almafu_9960118757802883
Format:
1 online resource (xiii, 255 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
1-108-35635-4
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1-108-35971-X
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1-108-35514-5
Series Statement:
Literature and medicine ; volume 2
Content:
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.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Jun 2021).
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Cover -- Half-title -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Literature and Medicine in the Nineteenth Century -- Part I Epistemologies -- Chapter 1 Writing Realism in Nineteenth-Century British Literature and Medicine -- Clinical Medical Realism and Literary Realism -- Specific Historical Context -- Ordinary Character, Setting, Events -- Tell It Straight -- Skepticism, Detachment (and Sympathy) -- Verisimilitude and Empiricism: Attention to Detail in Description -- Realism and Psychologism: Mimesis -- Totalizing Aesthetic -- Final Differences -- Conclusion -- Chapter 2 'Dissecting Piece by Piece': Experimentalism in Late-Victorian Fiction -- Medical Backgrounds -- Naturalism -- Genre Fiction -- Chapter 3 Exhibiting Bodies: Museums, Collecting, and Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century Literature -- Joseph Kahn's Anatomical and Pathological Museum -- The Anatomical Venus and the Sexualised Specimens of Kahn's Museum -- Wilkie Collins and Museum Culture -- Valeria Macallan as Anatomical Specimen -- Major Fitz-David's Collection -- Dexter's Museum -- Chapter 4 Anatomical Culture, Body-Snatching, and Nineteenth-Century Gothic -- Part II Professionalisation -- Chapter 5 Physic and Metaphysics: Poetry and the Unsteady Ascent of Professional Medicine -- Deadly Doctors and Invigorating Verse -- The Normal and the Pathological: Saviour Scientists and Mad Poets -- Cold Doctors and Warm Bodies -- Nonsense, Decadence, and Deliverance -- Chapter 6 Heroics, Devotion, and Erotics: Class, Sexuality, and the Victorian Nurse -- Chapter 7 Pharmacology, Controversy, and the Everyday in Fin-de-Siècle Medicine and Fiction -- Doyle, Meade, and Their Medical Contexts -- Drugs, Distrust, and Controversy: Fin-de-Siècle Therapeutics -- Medical Melodrama in Meade and Doyle.
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Common Remedies: Meade, Doyle, and Everyday Medicine -- From Controversy to the Everyday -- Part III Responses -- Chapter 8 Disorders of the Age: Nervous Climates -- Daniel Deronda and the Disorders of Modern Life -- The Whirlpool, Market Culture, and Psychological Disintegration -- Chapter 9 Medicine, Sanitary Reform, and Literature of Urban Poverty -- Manchester -- William and Elizabeth Gaskell -- Temperance Rhymes -- Howitt's Journal and Thomas Southwood Smith -- Temperance in Howitt's -- Cottonopolis -- Chapter 10 Flexible Bodies, Astral Minds: Gendered Mind-Body Practices and Colonial Medicine -- Tracing Gender, Colonialism, and Medicine in the Nineteenth Century -- Props and Exercise: India in Victorian Conceptions of the Physical Body -- Breath, Mind, and Movement: Manuals of Meditation and Healing by Genevieve Stebbins -- Indian Journeys: Western Women and the Scientific Cultures of Yoga -- Chapter 11 The Other 'Other Victorians': Normative Sexualities in Victorian Literature -- Chapter 12 Physical 'Wholeness' and 'Incompleteness' in Victorian Prosthesis Narratives -- Part 1: Cultivating 'Completeness' -- Theories of the Body and Mind -- Legal and Social Factors -- Persuasive Prosthetists -- Part 2: Uncanny Hands -- Index.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-108-42074-5
Language:
English
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108355148
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