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The science of starving in Victorian literature, medicine and political economy / Andrew Mangham.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mangham, Andrew, 1979- author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hunger in literature--19th century.
- Hunger in literature.
- Literature and medicine--19th century.
- Literature and medicine.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (240 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2020.
- Summary:
- What actually happens to our bodies when we starve? How does the sensation of hunger come about, and how exactly does going without food lead to death? Do we die from hunger, or do we die from the secondary conditions it causes? And how is the physiology of something so familiar to us, experienced by each of us every day, so little known? This book is the first study to suggest that these questions were first explored in detail in the nineteenth century. The Science of Starving in Victorian Literature, Medicine, and Political Economy is a reassessment of the languages and methodologies used, throughout the nineteenth century, for discussing extreme hunger.
- Notes:
- Also issued in print: 2020.
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-188451-0
- 0-19-259026-X
- 0-19-259027-8
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