The Science of Starving in Victorian Literature, Medicine, and Political Economy

ISBN-13: 9780198850038 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 240 str.

Andrew Mangham

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Mangham does a good job of blending the works of these writers with Victorian understandings of the human body and the economic impact of starvation. The book is clear and well written...

O autorze

Andrew Mangham is Professor of Victorian Literature and Medical Humanities at the University of Reading. His books on the intersection between medicine and literature include Dickens's Forensic Realism (2017) and Violent Women and Sensation Fiction (2007). He is editor of Literature and Medicine in the Nineteenth Century (2020) and The Cambridge Companion to Sensation Fiction (2013). He has also co-edited, with Daniel Lea, The Male Body in Medicine and Literature (2018) and, with Greta Depledge, The Female Body in Medicine and Literature (2011).