Title The science of starving in Victorian literature, medicine, and political economy / Andre Mangham

Edition First edition Published Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2020 ©2020

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 213 pages) Contents Intro -- Halftitle page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication page -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Epigraph -- Introduction -- 1. Starvation Science and Political Economy -- Irish Hunger -- God's Will in Ireland -- Salutary Starvation -- Material Starvation -- Unholy Starvation -- The Social and Political Climate -- Reasoned Analysis -- Starvation Statistics -- William Farr vs. Edwin Chadwick -- Famine Fever -- Waste Economies: George Henry Lewes vs. Justus von Liebig -- 2. Charles Kingsley: 'The Symbolism and Dignity of Matter' -- Materialist Christianity -- 1848 Tailor Hunting -- Yeast and Yeast -- The Chadwickiad -- Herbert Spencer -- Flesh and Blood Poetry -- 3. Elizabeth Gaskell: 'Clemming' -- Modes of Thinking -- William Carpenter and Henry Holland -- Manchester Realism -- Unitarianism -- Gaskell's Realism -- Hunger and Anger -- The Lancashire Cotton Famine and Sylvia's Lovers -- Philip Hepburn's Body -- 4. Charles Dickens: 'Nothink and Starwation' -- Nothink -- Seeing Dogmatically -- All a Muddle -- The Tooting Disease and the New Poor Law -- Seeing Intelligently -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (Oxford Scholarship Online, viewed on July 10, 2020) Subject Hunger in literature -- 19th century Literature and medicine -- 19th century Medicine in literature -- 19th century English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism Starvation -- 19th century English literature Hunger in literature Literature and medicine Medicine in literature Starvation Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 9780192590275 0192590278 9780192590268 019259026X

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