Literature and medicine : the nineteenth century / edited by Clark Lawlor, Andrew Mangham.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lawlor, Clark, 1965- editor.

Mangham, Andrew, 1979- editor.

Series:

Literature and medicine ; volume 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature and medicine--History--19th century.

Literature and medicine.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 255 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2021.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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.

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.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Jun 2021).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-108-35635-4

1-108-35971-X

1-108-35514-5

OCLC:

1260348082