Invalidism And Identity In Nineteenth Century Britain

Author : Maria H. Frawley
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2010-11-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780226261225

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Invalidism and Identity in Nineteenth-Century Britain by Maria H. Frawley Pdf

Nineteenth-century Britain did not invent chronic illness, but its social climate allowed hundreds of men and women, from intellectuals to factory workers, to assume the identity of "invalid." Whether they suffered from a temporary condition or an incurable disease, many wrote about their experiences, leaving behind an astonishingly rich and varied record of disability in Victorian Britain. Using an array of primary sources, Maria Frawley here constructs a cultural history of invalidism. She describes the ways that Evangelicalism, industrialization, and changing patterns of doctor/patient relationships all converged to allow a culture of invalidism to flourish, and explores what it meant for a person to be designated—or to deem oneself—an invalid. Highlighting how different types of invalids developed distinct rhetorical strategies, her absorbing account reveals that, contrary to popular belief, many of the period's most prominent and prolific invalids were men, while many women found invalidism an unexpected opportunity for authority. In uncovering the wide range of cultural and social responses to notions of incapacity, Frawley sheds light on our own historical moment, similarly fraught with equally complicated attitudes toward mental and physical disorder.

Author : Alex Tankard
Publisher : Springer
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2018-02-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783319714462

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Tuberculosis and Disabled Identity in Nineteenth Century Literature by Alex Tankard Pdf

Until the nineteenth century, consumptives were depicted as sensitive, angelic beings whose purpose was to die beautifully and set an example of pious suffering – while, in reality, many people with tuberculosis faced unemployment, destitution, and an unlovely death in the workhouse. Focusing on the period 1821-1912, in which modern ideas about disease, disability, and eugenics emerged to challenge Romanticism and sentimentality, Invalid Lives examines representations of nineteenth-century consumptives as disabled people. Letters, self-help books, eugenic propaganda, and press interviews with consumptive artists suggest that people with tuberculosis were disabled as much by oppressive social structures and cultural stereotypes as by the illness itself. Invalid Lives asks whether disruptive consumptive characters in Wuthering Heights, Jude the Obscure, The Idiot, and Beatrice Harraden’s 1893 New Woman novel Ships That Pass in the Night represented critical, politicised models of disabled identity (and disabled masculinity) decades before the modern disability movement.

Author : Janis McLarren Caldwell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2004-11-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139456647

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Literature and Medicine in Nineteenth-Century Britain by Janis McLarren Caldwell Pdf

Although we have come to regard 'clinical' and 'romantic' as oppositional terms, romantic literature and clinical medicine were fed by the same cultural configurations. In the pre-Darwinian nineteenth century, writers and doctors developed an interpretive method that negotiated between literary and scientific knowledge of the natural world. Literary writers produced potent myths that juxtaposed the natural and the supernatural, often disturbing the conventional dualist hierarchy of spirit over flesh. Clinicians developed the two-part history and physical examination, weighing the patient's narrative against the evidence of the body. Examining fiction by Mary Shelley, Carlyle, the Brontës and George Eliot, alongside biomedical lectures, textbooks and articles, Janis McLarren Caldwell demonstrates the similar ways of reading employed by nineteenth-century doctors and imaginative writers and reveals the complexities and creative exchanges of the relationship between literature and medicine.

Author : Clare Walker Gore
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-01
Category : Disabilities in literature
ISBN : 9781474455039

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Plotting Disability in the Nineteenth-Century Novel by Clare Walker Gore Pdf

This book takes an exciting new approach to characterisation and plot in the Victorian novel, examining the vital narrative work performed by disabled characters.

Author : Joyce L. Huff,Martha Stoddard Holmes
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2023-05-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350029095

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A Cultural History of Disability in the Long Nineteenth Century by Joyce L. Huff,Martha Stoddard Holmes Pdf

The long 19th century-stretching from the start of the American Revolution in 1776 to the end of World War I in 1918-was a pivotal period in the history of disability for the Western world and the cultures under its imperial sway. Industrialization was a major factor in the changing landscape of disability, providing new adaptive technologies and means of access while simultaneously contributing to the creation of a mass-produced environment hostile to bodies and minds that did not adhere to emerging norms. In defining disability, medical views, which framed disabilities as problems to be solved, competed with discourses from such diverse realms as religion, entertainment, education, and literature. Disabled writers and activists generated important counternarratives, made increasingly available through the spread of print culture. An essential resource for researchers, scholars and students of history, literature, culture and education, A Cultural History of Disability in the Long Nineteenth Century includes chapters on atypical bodies, mobility impairment, chronic pain and illness, blindness, deafness, speech dysfluencies, learning difficulties, and mental health, with 37 illustrations drawn from period sources.

Author : Hosanna Krienke
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108844840

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Convalescence in the Nineteenth-Century Novel by Hosanna Krienke Pdf

This interdisciplinary study examines how holistic aftercare became a crucial supplement to scientific medicine in nineteenth-century Britain.

Author : H. Marland
Publisher : Springer
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2013-07-12
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781137328144

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Health and Girlhood in Britain, 1874-1920 by H. Marland Pdf

This first major study of girls' health in modern Britain explores how debates and advice on healthy girlhood shaped ideas about the lives of young women from the 1870s to the 1920s, as theories concerning the biological limitations of female adolescence were challenged and girls moved into new arenas in the workplace, sport and recreation.

Author : Elizabeth Lane Furdell
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2009-01-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9789047425977

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Fatal Thirst: Diabetes in Britain until Insulin by Elizabeth Lane Furdell Pdf

Using unpublished and published sources, this book examines the history of diabetes in Britain from the perspective of healer and sufferer alike, focusing on medieval treatments, Renaissance-era diabetology, and the centuries-long debate among specialists over the site and cure of the disease.

Author : Erika Wright
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780821445631

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Reading for Health by Erika Wright Pdf

In Reading for Health: Medical Narratives and the Nineteenth-Century Novel, Erika Wright argues that the emphasis in Victorian Studies on disease as the primary source of narrative conflict that must be resolved has obscured the complex reading practices that emerge around the concept of health. By shifting attention to the ways that prevention of illness and the preservation of well-being operate in fiction, both thematically and structurally, Wright offers a new approach to reading character and voice, order and temporality, setting and metaphor. As Wright reveals, while canonical works by Austen, Brontë, Dickens, Martineau, and Gaskell register the pervasiveness of a conventional “therapeutic” form of action and mode of reading, they demonstrate as well an equally powerful investment in the achievement and maintenance of “health”—what Wright refers to as a “hygienic” narrative—both in personal and domestic conduct and in social interaction of the individual within the community.

Author : Stephanie Potocka de Montalk
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780429878671

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Communicating Pain by Stephanie Potocka de Montalk Pdf

Combining critical research with memoir, essay, poetry and creative biography, this insightful volume sensitively explores the lived experience of chronic pain. Confronting the language of pain and the paradox of writing about personal pain, Communicating Pain is a personal response to the avoidance, dismissal and isolation experienced by the author after developing intractable pelvic pain in 2003. The volume focuses on pain's infamous resistance to verbal expression, the sense of exile experienced by sufferers and the under-recognised distinction between acute and chronic pain. In doing so, it creates a platform upon which scholarly, imaginative and emotional quotients round out pain as the sum of physical actualities, mental challenges and psychosocial interactions. Additionally, this work creates a dialogue between medicine and literature. Considering the works of writers such as Harriet Martineau, Alphonse Daudet and Aleksander Wat, it enables a multi-genre narrative heightened by poetry, fictional storytelling and life-writing. Coupled with academic rigour, this insightful monograph constitutes a persuasive and unique exploration of pain and the communication of suffering. It will appeal to students and researchers interested in fields such as Medical Humanities, Autobiography Studies and Sociology of Health and Illness.

Author : Stephanie de Montalk
Publisher : Victoria University Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2015-07-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781776560042

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How Does It Hurt? by Stephanie de Montalk Pdf

In How Does It Hurt?, acclaimed poet and biographer Stephanie de Montalk tells the story of the chronic pain that has invaded her life for more than 10 years. She considers how her early experiences have been cast into fresh relief by what she has endured, then goes back in time to investigate the lives and works of three writers who also lived with and wrote about pain: "the consolator," English social theorist Harriet Martineau (1802–1876), "the vendor of happiness," French novelist Alphonse Daudet (1840–1897), and "the imago," Polish poet Aleksander Wat (1900–1967). Through these explorations de Montalk confronts the paradox of writing about suffering: where we can turn when the pain is beyond words? A unique blend of memoir, imaginative biography, and poetry, How Does It Hurt? is a groundbreaking contribution to the understanding of chronic pain and a spellbinding literary achievement.

Author : Rachel Ablow
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2020-06-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691202884

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Victorian Pain by Rachel Ablow Pdf

The nineteenth century introduced developments in science and medicine that made the eradication of pain conceivable for the first time. This new understanding of pain brought with it a complex set of moral and philosophical dilemmas. If pain serves no obvious purpose, how do we reconcile its existence with a well-ordered universe? Examining how writers of the day engaged with such questions, Victorian Pain offers a compelling new literary and philosophical history of modern pain. Rachel Ablow provides close readings of novelists Charlotte Brontë and Thomas Hardy and political and natural philosophers John Stuart Mill, Harriet Martineau, and Charles Darwin, as well as a variety of medical, scientific, and popular writers of the Victorian age. She explores how discussions of pain served as investigations into the status of persons and the nature and parameters of social life. No longer conceivable as divine trial or punishment, pain in the nineteenth century came to seem instead like a historical accident suggesting little or nothing about the individual who suffers. A landmark study of Victorian literature and the history of pain, Victorian Pain shows how these writers came to see pain as a social as well as a personal problem. Rather than simply self-evident to the sufferer and unknowable to anyone else, pain was also understood to be produced between persons—and even, perhaps, by the fictions they read.

Author : Laura Humphreys
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2021-04-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000374858

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Globalising Housework by Laura Humphreys Pdf

This book shows how international influences profoundly shaped the ‘English’ home of Victorian and Edwardian London; homes which, in turn, influenced Britain’s (and Britons’) place on the world stage. The period between 1850 and 1914 was one of fundamental global change, when London homes were subject to new expanding influences that shaped how residents cleaned, ate, and cared for family. It was also the golden age of domesticity, when the making and maintaining of home expressed people’s experience of society, class, race, and politics. Focusing on the everyday toil of housework, the chapters in this volume show the ‘English’ home as profoundly global conglomeration of people, technology, and things. It examines a broad spectrum of sources, from patents to ice cream makers, and explores domestic histories through original readings and critiques of printed sources, material culture, and visual ephemera.

Author : Harriet Martineau
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1844
Category : Conduct of life
ISBN : BCUL:1092589901

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Life in the Sick-room by Harriet Martineau Pdf

Author : Mark Jackson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 692 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2011-08-25
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780191617515

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The Oxford Handbook of the History of Medicine by Mark Jackson Pdf

The Oxford Handbook of the History of Medicine celebrates the richness and variety of medical history around the world. In recent decades, the history of medicine has emerged as a rich and mature sub-discipline within history, but the strength of the field has not precluded vigorous debates about methods, themes, and sources. Bringing together over thirty international scholars, this handbook provides a constructive overview of the current state of these debates, and offers new directions for future scholarship. There are three sections: the first explores the methodological challenges and historiographical debates generated by working in particular historical ages; the second explores the history of medicine in specific regions of the world and their medical traditions, and includes discussion of the `global history of medicine'; the final section analyses, from broad chronological and geographical perspectives, both established and emerging historical themes and methodological debates in the history of medicine.