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Title Medicine and mobility in nineteenth-century British literature, history, and culture / Sandra Dinter, Sarah Schäfer-Althaus, editors
Published Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2023]

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Description 1 online resource (302 p.)
Series Studies in mobilities, literature, and culture
Studies in mobilities, literature, and culture.
Contents Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1: Medicine and Mobility in Nineteenth-Century British Literature, History, and Culture: An Introduction -- Historical Coordinates: Medicine, Mobility, and Their Entanglements in Nineteenth-Century Britain -- Theoretical Cornerstones: Mobility Studies and the Medical Humanities -- Dissecting Medicine and Mobility in Nineteenth-Century Britain: The Contributions -- Works Cited -- Part I: Travel and Health -- Chapter 2: Doctors' Ships: Voyages for Health in the Late Nineteenth Century
The Ocean as a Health Resort -- A Doctor's Narrative: Francis Workman -- Life On-Board the Sobraon: Passenger Narratives -- Ship Newspapers -- The Arrival of the Invalids -- Conclusion: Slow Travel for Health -- Works Cited -- Chapter 3: Watering Holes: Healthy Waters and Moral Dangers in the Nineteenth-Century Novel -- Bathing -- Spas and Seaside Resorts -- The Novel -- Conclusion: Spa Novels and Sedentarism -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Chapter 4: Embodied Interdependencies of Health and Travel in Henry James's The Portrait of a Lady and Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Movements of Travellers and Dancers -- Ailing and Itinerant Bodies as Liminal Spaces of Health -- Maternity, Mobility, and Mortality -- Conclusion: Victorian Heroines' Health and Travel -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Chapter 5: (Mental) Health and Travel: Reflections on the Benefits of Idling in the Victorian Age -- Mary Shelley and (Mental) Health -- Taking a Rest? Dickens and Collins -- Gissing's Brooding -- Conclusion: Resting Minds in Idly Moving Bodies -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Part II: Pathologising Mobilities
Chapter 6: Upright Posture and Gendered Styles of Body Movements in The Mill on the Floss -- Masculine Variations of Body Movements: Tom's Correct Posture -- Feminine Variations of Body Movements: Maggie's Deviant Posture -- Conclusion: Maggie's Expansion of the Victorian Repertoire of Feminine Mobility and Beyond -- Works Cited -- Chapter 7: The Mobility of Water: Aquatic Transformation and Disease in Victorian Literature -- Mobile Matter -- Aquatic Transformations: Rain as an Agent of Disease in The Woman in White -- The Flow of Disease: Aquatic Infection in Three Men in a Boat
Conclusion: Aquatic Agency and Mobility -- Works Cited -- Chapter 8: A "Feverish Restlessness": Dance as Decadent Mobility in Late Victorian Poetry -- Urban Mobility, Dance, and the Medical Rhetoric of Late Victorian Cultural Criticism -- Compulsive Restlessness: Oscar Wilde's Dancers -- The Malady of Monotony: Arthur Symons's Dancers -- Paralysis and Desire: Michael Field's Dancers -- Conclusion: Progressing in Circles -- Works Cited -- Chapter 9: The Wandering Irish: Mobility and Lunacy in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Lancashire -- Reception, Discrimination, and Anti-Irishness
Summary Medicine and Mobility in Nineteenth-Century British Literature, History, and Culture is a welcome and timely addition to the debates touching on the theme of mobility as it was developed through literature, medicine, and history of the nineteenth century. Truly interdisciplinary in their approaches, these dynamic essays encourage us to think afresh about mobility as a central feature of the modern condition. Professor Andrew Mangham, Department of English Literature, University of Reading This volume gathers major international names in nineteenth-century scholarship to address full-frontally the relation of transport and medical cultures in a period when both were evolving symbiotically. In a series of engaging historicising chapters, the book amply demonstrates the necessity of its interdisciplinary logic, opening up possibilities for further Victorian, medical humanities and mobilities research bridges. Dr Matthew Ingleby, Department of English, Queen Mary University of London Medicine and Mobility in Nineteenth-Century British Literature, History, and Culture analyses the cultural and literary histories of medicine and mobility as entangled processes whose discourses and practices constituted, influenced, and transformed each other. Presenting case studies of novels, poetry, travel narratives, diaries, ship magazines, skin care manuals, asylum records, press reports, and various other sources, its chapters identify and discuss diverse literary, historical, and cultural texts, contexts, and modes in which medicine and mobility intersected in nineteenth-century Britain, its empire, and beyond, whereby they illustrate how the paradigms of mobility studies and the medical humanities can complement each other. Sandra Dinter is Junior Professor of British Literature and Culture at the University of Hamburg, Germany. Her research focuses on representations of mobility, gender, and space in the long nineteenth century. Sarah Schfer-Althaus is Lecturer of Anglophone Literature and Culture at the University of Koblenz, Germany. Her research focuses on women, gender, and sexuality studies, body theory, and the history of medicine
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Migration, Wandering, and Asylum Admissions
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 18, 2023)
Subject English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
Medicine in literature.
Health in literature.
Social medicine.
Health -- Social aspects
English literature
Health in literature
Health -- Social aspects
Intellectual life
Medicine in literature
Social conditions
Social medicine
SUBJECT Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 19th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056943
Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 19th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056856
Subject Great Britain
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Dinter, Sandra, editor.
Schäfer-Althaus, Sarah, editor.
ISBN 9783031170201
3031170202