Overview
- Connects the medical humanities and mobilities studies
- Draws on novels, poetry, journals, medical guidebooks, and visual culture
- Details the rise of modern medicine and new modes of mobility due to the industrial revolution
Part of the book series: Studies in Mobilities, Literature, and Culture (SMLC)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Travel and Health
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Pathologising Mobilities
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Mobilities and Medical Regimens
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About this book
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.
Reviews
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 culturesin 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 LondonEditors and Affiliations
About the editors
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Medicine and Mobility in Nineteenth-Century British Literature, History, and Culture
Editors: Sandra Dinter, Sarah Schäfer-Althaus
Series Title: Studies in Mobilities, Literature, and Culture
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-17020-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-17019-5Published: 16 March 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-17022-5Published: 16 March 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-17020-1Published: 15 March 2023
Series ISSN: 2946-4838
Series E-ISSN: 2946-4846
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 296
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations
Topics: Nineteenth-Century Literature, European Literature, Cultural Studies, History of Science, History of Science