Medicine and Mobility in Nineteenth-Century British Literature, History, and Culture

ISBN-13: 9783031170195 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 304 str.

Sandra Dinter; Sarah Schäfer-Althaus

Opis

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.

Spis treści

INTRODUCTION 1 Intersections of Medicine and Mobility in 19th-Century Britain Sandra Dinter and Sarah Schäfer-Althaus.- SECTION I: 19TH-CENTURY THERAPEUTIC TRAVEL AND MEDICAL TOURISM.- 2 Doctors’ Ships: Voyages for Health in the Late 19th-Century.- Sally Shuttleworth 3 Modes of Seasickness: London-Margate 1815–1846 Matthew Ingleby.- SECTION II: BETWEEN CONTAGION AND CURE: WATER AS AMBIGUOUS MATTER.- 4 The Mobility of Water: Aquatic Transformation and Disease in Victorian Literature Ursula Kluwick.- 5 Watering Holes: Healthy Waters and Moral Dangers in the 19th-Century Novel Pamela K. Gilbert.- SECTION III: MOBILITY AND THE GENDERED MEDICAL GAZE.- 6 Exposure, Friction, and ‘Peculiar Feelings’: Victorian Travelling Skin Ariane de Waal.- 7 Gendered Mobility in George Eliot’s The Mill on the Floss (1860) Monika Class.- 8 Embodied Interdependencies of Health and Travel in The Portrait of a Lady and Tess of the d’Urbervilles Natasha Audrey Anderson.- SECTION IV: RESTLESS AND RESTRICTED: THE PATHOLOGIES OF MOVEMENT.- 9 (Mental) Health and Travel: Mary Shelley and George Gissing Crossing Borders Heidi Liedke.- 10 A “Feverish Restlessness”: Decadent Mobility in Late Victorian Poetry Stefanie John.- 11 The Wandering Irish: Prisons, Asylums and the Mobility of Lunacy in Late 19th-Century Lancashire Hilary Marland and Catherine Cox.- SECTION V: MEDICAL PRECAUTIONS FOR BRITISH COLONIZERS.- 12 From Heroic Exploration to Careful Control: Mobility, Health and Medicine in the British African Empire Markku Hokkanen.- 13 Travelling Objects: Commodity Culture and Victorian Geographies of Health Monika Pietrzak-Franger.

O autorze

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 Schäfer-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.

Blurb

“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 Schäfer-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.