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Author | : Abigail Boucher |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2023-08-31 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 3031411412 |
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Science, Medicine, and Lineage in Popular Fiction of the Long Nineteenth Century explores the dialogue between popular literature and medical and scientific discourse in terms of how they represent the highly visible an pathologized British aristocratic body. This books explores and complicates the two major portrayals of aristocrats in nineteenth-century literature: that of the medicalised, frail, debauched, and diseased aristocrat, and that of the heroic, active, beautiful ‘noble’, both of which are frequent and resonant in popular fiction of the long nineteenth century. Abigail Boucher argues that the concept of class in the long nineteenth century implicitly includes notions of blood, lineage, and bodily ‘correctness’, and that ‘class’ was therefore frequently portrayed as an empirical, scientific, and medical certainty. Due to their elevated and highly visual social positions, both historical and fictional aristocrats were frequently pathologized in the public mind and watched for signs of physical excellence or deviance. Using popular fiction, Boucher establishes patterns across decades, genres, and demographics and considers how these patterns react to, normalise, or feed into the advent of new scientific and medical understandings.
Author | : Louise Penner |
Publisher | : University of Pittsburgh Press |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2016-09-12 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0822981890 |
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This collection of essays explores the rise of scientific medicine and its impact on Victorian popular culture. Chapters include an examination of Charles Dickens's involvement with hospital funding, concerns over milk purity and the theatrical portrayal of drug addiction, plus a whole section devoted to the representation of medicine in crime fiction. This is an interdisciplinary study involving public health, cultural studies, the history of medicine, literature and the theatre, providing new insights into Victorian culture and society.
Author | : Abigail Boucher |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 151 |
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ISBN | : 3031527534 |
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Author | : Kristine Swenson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 10 |
Release | : 2007 |
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Author | : Tabitha Sparks |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 211 |
Release | : 2016-03-23 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1317035402 |
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With the character of the doctor as her subject, Tabitha Sparks follows the decline of the marriage plot in the Victorian novel. As Victorians came to terms with the scientific revolution in medicine of the mid-to-late nineteenth century, the novel's progressive distance from the conventions of the marriage plot can be indexed through a rising identification of the doctor with scientific empiricism. A narrative's stance towards scientific reason, Sparks argues, is revealed by the fictional doctor's relationship to the marriage plot. Thus, novels that feature romantic doctors almost invariably deny the authority of empiricism, as is the case in George MacDonald's Adela Cathcart. In contrast, works such as Wilkie Collins's Heart and Science, which highlight clinically minded or even sinister doctors, uphold the determining logic of science and, in turn, threaten the novel's romantic plot. By focusing on the figure of the doctor rather than on a scientific theme or medical field, Sparks emulates the Victorian novel's personalization of tropes and belief systems, using the realism associated with the doctor to chart the sustainability of the Victorian novel's central imaginative structure, the marriage plot. As the doctors Sparks examines increasingly stand in for the encroachment of empirical knowledge on a morally formulated artistic genre, their alienation from the marriage plot and its interrelated decline succinctly herald the end of the Victorian era and the beginning of Modernism.
Author | : Janis McLarren Caldwell |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 219 |
Release | : 2004-11-18 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1139456644 |
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Although we have come to regard 'clinical' and 'romantic' as oppositional terms, romantic literature and clinical medicine were fed by the same cultural configurations. In the pre-Darwinian nineteenth century, writers and doctors developed an interpretive method that negotiated between literary and scientific knowledge of the natural world. Literary writers produced potent myths that juxtaposed the natural and the supernatural, often disturbing the conventional dualist hierarchy of spirit over flesh. Clinicians developed the two-part history and physical examination, weighing the patient's narrative against the evidence of the body. Examining fiction by Mary Shelley, Carlyle, the Brontës and George Eliot, alongside biomedical lectures, textbooks and articles, Janis McLarren Caldwell demonstrates the similar ways of reading employed by nineteenth-century doctors and imaginative writers and reveals the complexities and creative exchanges of the relationship between literature and medicine.
Author | : Jane Wood |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780198187608 |
Download Passion and Pathology in Victorian Fiction Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
'Fascinating information and analysis.' -The Review of English Studies'A solid contribution to a developing field and well worth a place on the shelf of a scholar of either social medicine or Victorian fiction.' -Social History of MedicineNervous illness, and the study of how body and mind connected, were of intense interest to Victorian medical writers and novelists alike. Offering important new readings of major and less well-known fiction as well as insightful analyses of medical writing, this book extends our understanding of the cultural roles of literature and science.
Author | : Aldous Huxley |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Literature and science |
ISBN | : 9780918024855 |
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Author | : Laurence Talairach-Vielmas |
Publisher | : University of Wales Press |
Total Pages | : 307 |
Release | : 2009-09-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1783163739 |
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This book examines how Wilkie Collins’s interest in medical matters developed in his writing through exploration of his revisions of the late eighteenth-century Gothic novel from his first sensation novels to his last novels of the 1880s. Throughout his career, Collins made changes in the prototypical Gothic scenario. The aristocratic villains, victimized maidens and medieval castles of classic Gothic tales were reworked and adapted to thrill his Victorian readership. With the advances of neuroscience and the development of criminology as a significant backdrop to most of his novels, Collins drew upon contemporary anxieties and increasingly used the medical to propel his criminal plots. While the prototypical castles were turned into modern medical institutions, his heroines no longer feared ghosts but the scientist’s knife. This study hence underlines the way in which Collins’s Gothic revisions increasingly tackled medical questions, using the medical terrain to capitalize on the readers’ fears. It also demonstrates how Wilkie Collins’s fiction reworks Gothic themes and presents them through the prism of contemporary scientific, medical and psychological discourses, from debates revolving around mental physiology to those dealing with heredity and transmission. The book’s structure is chronological covering a selection of texts in each chapter, with a balance between discussion of the more canonical of Collins’s texts such as The Woman in White, The Moonstone and Armadale and some of his more neglected writings.
Author | : Jessica Howell |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2018-10-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108484689 |
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Study of malaria in literature and culture illuminates the legacies of nineteenth-century colonial medicine within narratives of illness.