Literature And Medicine In Nineteenth Century Britain

Author : Janis McLarren Caldwell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 52,6 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 : Clark Lawlor,Andrew Mangham
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108420747

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Literature and Medicine by Clark Lawlor,Andrew Mangham Pdf

Offers an authoritative account of literature and medicine at a vital point in their emergence during the nineteenth-century.

Author : Megan Coyer
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : LITERARY COLLECTIONS
ISBN : 9781474405614

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Literature and Medicine in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical Press by Megan Coyer Pdf

In the early nineteenth century, Edinburgh was the leading centre of medical education and research in Britain. It also laid claim to a thriving periodical culture, which served as a significant medium for the dissemination and exchange of medical and literary ideas throughout Britain, the colonies, and beyond. Literature and Medicine in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical Press explores the relationship between the medical culture of Romantic-era Scotland and the periodical press by examining several medically-trained contributors to Blackwood?s Edinburgh Magazine, the most influential and innovative literary periodical of the era.

Author : Amelia Bonea,Melissa Dickson,Sally Shuttleworth,Jennifer Wallis
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2019-04-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780822986607

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Anxious Times by Amelia Bonea,Melissa Dickson,Sally Shuttleworth,Jennifer Wallis Pdf

Much like the Information Age of the twenty-first century, the Industrial Age was a period of great social changes brought about by rapid industrialization and urbanization, speed of travel, and global communications. The literature, medicine, science, and popular journalism of the nineteenth century attempted to diagnose problems of the mind and body that such drastic transformations were thought to generate: a range of conditions or “diseases of modernity” resulting from specific changes in the social and physical environment. The alarmist rhetoric of newspapers and popular periodicals, advertising various “neurotic remedies,” in turn inspired a new class of physicians and quack medical practices devoted to the treatment and perpetuation of such conditions. Anxious Times examines perceptions of the pressures of modern life and their impact on bodily and mental health in nineteenth-century Britain. The authors explore anxieties stemming from the potentially harmful impact of new technologies, changing work and leisure practices, and evolving cultural pressures and expectations within rapidly changing external environments. Their work reveals how an earlier age confronted the challenges of seemingly unprecedented change, and diagnosed transformations in both the culture of the era and the life of the mind.

Author : John Woodward,David Richards
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : England
ISBN : UOM:39015004365626

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Health Care and Popular Medicine in Nineteenth Century England by John Woodward,David Richards Pdf

Author : Sandra Dinter,Sarah Schäfer-Althaus
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2023-03-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783031170201

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Medicine and Mobility in Nineteenth-Century British Literature, History, and Culture by Sandra Dinter,Sarah Schäfer-Althaus Pdf

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.

Author : Laurence Talairach
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030725273

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Animals, Museum Culture and Children’s Literature in Nineteenth-Century Britain by Laurence Talairach Pdf

Animals, Museum Culture and Children’s Literature in Nineteenth-Century Britain: Curious Beasties explores the relationship between the zoological and palaeontological specimens brought back from around the world in the long nineteenth century—be they alive, stuffed or fossilised—and the development of children’s literature at this time. Children’s literature emerged as dizzying numbers of new species flooded into Britain with scientific expeditions, from giraffes and hippopotami to kangaroos, wombats, platypuses or sloths. As the book argues, late Georgian, Victorian and Edwardian children’s writers took part in the urge for mass education and presented the world and its curious creatures to children, often borrowing from their museum culture and its objects to map out that world. This original exploration illuminates how children’s literature dealt with the new ordering of the world, offering a unique viewpoint on the construction of science in the long nineteenth century.

Author : Sally Frampton,Jennifer Wallis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000294040

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Reading the Nineteenth-Century Medical Journal by Sally Frampton,Jennifer Wallis Pdf

This book explores medical and health periodicals of the nineteenth century: their contemporary significance, their readership, and how historians have approached them as objects of study. From debates about women doctors in lesser-known titles such as the Medical Mirror, to the formation of professional medical communities within French and Portuguese periodicals, the contributors to this volume highlight the multi-faceted nature of these publications as well as their uses to the historian. Medical periodicals – far from being the preserve of doctors and nurses – were also read by the general public. Thus, the contributions collected here will be of interest not only to the historian of medicine, but also to those interested in nineteenth-century periodical culture more broadly. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the journal Media History.

Author : Louise Penner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781317316718

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Victorian Medicine and Popular Culture by Louise Penner Pdf

This collection of essays explores the rise of scientific medicine and its impact on Victorian popular culture. Chapters include an examination of Dickens’s involvement with hospital funding, concerns over milk purity and the theatrical portrayal of drug addiction, plus a whole section devoted to medicine in crime fiction.

Author : Gowan Dawson,Bernard Lightman,Sally Shuttleworth,Jonathan R. Topham
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780226683461

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Science Periodicals in Nineteenth-Century Britain by Gowan Dawson,Bernard Lightman,Sally Shuttleworth,Jonathan R. Topham Pdf

Periodicals played a vital role in the developments in science and medicine that transformed nineteenth-century Britain. Proliferating from a mere handful to many hundreds of titles, they catered to audiences ranging from gentlemanly members of metropolitan societies to working-class participants in local natural history clubs. In addition to disseminating authorized scientific discovery, they fostered a sense of collective identity among their geographically dispersed and often socially disparate readers by facilitating the reciprocal interchange of ideas and information. As such, they offer privileged access into the workings of scientific communities in the period. The essays in this volume set the historical exploration of the scientific and medical periodicals of the era on a new footing, examining their precise function and role in the making of nineteenth-century science and enhancing our vision of the shifting communities and practices of science in the period. This radical rethinking of the scientific journal offers a new approach to the reconfiguration of the sciences in nineteenth-century Britain and sheds instructive light on contemporary debates about the purpose, practices, and price of scientific journals.

Author : Samuel J. Rogal
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015022275872

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Medicine in Great Britain from the Restoration to the nineteenth century, 1660-1800 by Samuel J. Rogal Pdf

Includes indexes.

Author : Megan Coyer
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781474428880

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Literature and Medicine in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical Press by Megan Coyer Pdf

In the early nineteenth century, Edinburgh was the leading centre of medical education and research in Britain. It also laid claim to a thriving periodical culture. Literature and Medicine in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical Press investigates how Romantic periodicals cultivated innovative literary forms, ideologies and discourses that reflected and shaped medical culture in the nineteenth century. It examines several medically-trained contributors to Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, the most influential literary periodical of the time, and draws upon extensive archival and bibliographical research to reclaim these previously neglected medico-literary figures. Situating their work in relation to developments in medical and periodical culture, Megan Coyer's book advances our understanding of how the nineteenth-century periodical press cross-fertilised medical and literary ideas.

Author : Maria H. Frawley
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 40,6 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 : Erika Wright
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 40,8 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 : Andrea Charise
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2020-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781438477459

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The Aesthetics of Senescence by Andrea Charise Pdf

Investigates how nineteenth-century British literature grappled with a new understanding of aging as both an individual and collective experience. The Aesthetics of Senescence investigates how chronological age has come to possess far-reaching ideological, ethical, and aesthetic implications, both in the past and present. Andrea Charise argues that authors of the nineteenth century used the imaginative resources of literature to engage with an unprecedented climate of crisis associated with growing old. Marshalling a great variety of canonical authors including William Godwin, Mary Shelley, George Eliot, Anthony Trollope, and George Gissing, as well as less familiar writings by George Henry Lewes, Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland, Agnes Strickland, and Max Nordau, Charise demonstrates why the imaginative capacity of writing became an interdisciplinary crucible for testing what it meant to grow old at a time of profound cultural upheaval. Charise’s grounding in medicine, political history, literature, and genre offers a fresh, original, thoroughly interdisciplinary analysis of nineteenth-century aging and age theory, as well as new insights into the rise of the novel—a genre usually thought of as affiliated almost entirely with the young or middle-aged. “Charise’s brilliantly argued, clearly written book is an important intervention in nineteenth-century British literature, age studies, and medical humanities. It brings these areas of inquiry together in what seems a seamless way—as if they have always traveled together or ought to have. Through an investigation of what she calls the ‘aesthetics of embodiment that shaped nineteenth-century visions of aging,’ Charise has given us an original and groundbreaking study of literary, historical, anthropological, and philosophical texts.” — Devoney Looser, author of The Making of Jane Austen