Science of Starving in Victorian Literature, Medicine, and Political - Econom

Studying works by Charles Kingsley, Elizabeth Gaskell, and Charles Dickens, this volume illustrates how the Victorians used medicine and literature to develop a new way of thinking about starvation and the State.

List of contents

• Introduction


• 1: Starvation Science and Political Economy


• 2: Charles Kingsley 'The Symbolism and Dignity of Matter'


• 3: Elizabeth Gaskell: 'Clemming'


• Charles Dickens: 'Nothink and Starwation'


• Conclusion

About the author

Andrew Mangham is Professor of Victorian Literature and Medical Humanities at the University of Reading. His books on the intersection between medicine and literature include Dickens's Forensic Realism (2017) and Violent Women and Sensation Fiction (2007). He is editor of Literature and Medicine in the Nineteenth Century (2020) and The Cambridge Companion to Sensation Fiction (2013). He has also co-edited, with Daniel Lea, The Male Body in Medicine and Literature (2018) and, with Greta Depledge, The Female Body in Medicine and Literature (2011).

Summary

Studying works by Charles Kingsley, Elizabeth Gaskell, and Charles Dickens, this volume illustrates how the Victorians used medicine and literature to develop a new way of thinking about starvation and the State.

Additional text

Mangham does a good job of blending the works of these writers with Victorian understandings of the human body and the economic impact of starvation. The book is clear and well written...

Product details

• Authors: Andrew Mangham, Andrew (Professor of Victorian Literature Mangham
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.04.2020
• EAN: 9780198850038
• ISBN: 978-0-19-885003-8
• No. of pages: 240
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; English, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Poverty & Homelessness, MEDICAL / History, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, c 1800 to c 1900, Poverty & unemployment, History of Medicine, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, 1837–1901 (Victorian period), Poverty and precarity