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List of contents
List of Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Literature and Medicine in the Nineteenth Century Andrew Mangham; Part I. Epistemologies: 1. Modes of Realism in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Medicine Meegan Kennedy; 2. Experimentalism in Late-Victorian Novels Anne Stiles; 3. Exhibiting Bodies: Museums, Collecting and Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century Literature Verity Burke; 4. 'All Kinds of Carcasses I Have Cut Up': Anatomy in Nineteenth-century Gothic Fiction Laurence Talairach; Part II. Professionalisation: 5. Physic and Metaphysics: Poetry and the Unsteady Ascent of Professional Medicine Daniel Brown; 6. Class, Sexuality, and the Victorian Nurse Arlene Young; 7. Controversy: Pharmacology and Uncertainty in Nineteenth-century Medicine and Fiction Keir Waddington and Martin Willis; Part III. Responses: 8. Disorders of the Age: Nervous Climates Sally Shuttleworth and Melissa Dickson; 9. Medicine, Sanitary Reform and Literature of Urban Poverty Andrew Mangham; 10. Flexible Bodies, Astral Minds: Gendered Mind-body Practices and Colonial Medicine Narin Hassan; 11. The Other 'Other Victorians': Normative Sexualities in Victorian Literature Pamela K. Gilbert; 12. Physical 'Wholeness' and 'Incompleteness' in Victorian Prosthesis Narratives Ryan Sweet; Index.
About the author
Clark Lawlor is Professor of Eighteenth Century and Romantic Literature at Northumbria University. He is Principle Investigator for the Leverhulme Trust Major Projects Fashionable Diseases: Medicine, Literature and Culture, ca. 1660–1832, and Writing Doctors: Representation and Medical Personality ca. 1660–1832. His monographs include Consumption and Literature: The Making of the Romantic Disease (2006) and From Melancholia to Prozac: a History of Depression (2012).Andrew Mangham is Professor of Victorian Literature and Medical Humanities at the University of Reading. He is the author of Violent Women and Sensation Fiction (2007), Dickens's Forensic Realism (2016) and The Science of Starving (2020). He has edited the Cambridge Companion to Sensation Fiction (2013), The Female Body in Medicine and Literature (2011) and The Male Body in Medicine and Literature (2018).
Summary
The second in a two-part volume, offering an authoritative account of the relationship between literature and medicine during the nineteenth century. Leading scholars in the field provide a valuable overview of how these two diverse disciplines influenced and shaped each other throughout a period of radical change.
