Cholera and Nation - Doctoring the Social Body in Victorian England

Informationen zum Autor Pamela K. Gilbert is Professor of English at the University of Florida. Her books include Mapping the Victorian Social Body ; Imagined Londons ; and Beyond Sensation: Mary Elizabeth Braddon in Context (coedited with Marlene Tromp and Aeron Haynie), all published by SUNY Press. Klappentext How cholera epidemics affected Victorian perceptions of the body and the nation. Drawing from sermons, novels, newspaper editorials, poetry, medical texts, and the writings of social activists, Cholera and Nation explores how the coming of the cholera epidemics during a period of intense political reform in Britain set the terms by which the social body would be defined. In part by historical accident, epidemic disease and especially cholera became foundational to the understanding of the social body. As the healthy body was closely tied to a particular vision of nation and modernity, the unhealthy body was proportionately racialized and othered. In turn, epidemic disease could not be separated from issues of social responsibility, political management, and economic unrest, which perpetually threatened the nation and its identity. For the rest of the century, the emergent field of public health would be central to the British national imaginary, defining the nation's civilization and modernity by its sanitary progress. Zusammenfassung Explains how cholera epidemics affected Victorian perceptions of the body and the nation.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Pamela K. Gilbert is Professor of English at the University of Florida. Her books include Mapping the Victorian Social Body; Imagined Londons; and Beyond Sensation: Mary Elizabeth Braddon in Context (coedited with Marlene Tromp and Aeron Haynie), all published by SUNY Press.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Pamela K Gilbert, Pamela K. Gilbert, Gilbert Pamela K.
• Verlag: State University of New York Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 10.01.2008
• EAN: 9780791473436
• ISBN: 978-0-7914-7343-6
• Seiten: 241
• Abmessung: 159 mm x 229 mm x 13 mm
• Serien: SUNY Series, Studies in the Lo; SUNY series, Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geschichte; Naturwissenschaften, Medizin, Informatik, Technik > Naturwissenschaften allgemein; European History, MEDICAL / History, Ireland, History of Medicine, History of Science, United Kingdom, Great Britain, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General, Literature: history and criticism