Literature and Medicine: Volume 2: The Nineteenth Century

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Clark Lawlor (Northumbria University, Newcastle) Andrew Mangham (University of Reading)

Literature and Medicine

Volume 2: The Nineteenth Century

Clark Lawlor (Northumbria University, Newcastle), Andrew Mangham (University of Reading)

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Cambridge University Press
24 June 2021

Literary studies: general; Medical equipment & techniques; Public health & preventive medicine; History of medicine; Clinical & internal medicine

Offering an authoritative account of the relationship between literature and medicine between approximately 1800 and 1900, this volume brings together leading scholars in the field to provide a valuable overview of how two dynamic fields influenced and shaped each during a period of revolutionary change. During the nineteenth century, medicine was being redefined as a subject in which experimental methodologies could transform the healing art, and was simultaneously branching off into new specialisms and subdivisions. Questions addressed in this volume include the influence of physics on poetry, the role of medical professionalism in fiction, the cultural and literary representation of sanitation, and the interdisciplinary nature of controversy and negligence. Along with its sister publication, Literature and Medicine in the Eighteenth Century, this volume offers a major critical overview of the study of literature and medicine.

By: Andrew Mangham (University of Reading)
Edited by: Clark Lawlor (Northumbria University Newcastle)
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 19mm
Weight: 530g
ISBN: 9781108420747
ISBN 10: 1108420745
Pages: 280
Publication Date: 24 June 2021
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Clark Lawlor is Professor of Eighteenth Century and Romantic Literature at Northumbria University. He is Principle Investigator for the Leverhulme Trust Major Projects Fashionable Diseases: Medicine, Literature and Culture, ca. 1660-1832, and Writing Doctors: Representation and Medical Personality ca. 1660-1832. His monographs include Consumption and Literature: The Making of the Romantic Disease (2006) and From Melancholia to Prozac: a History of Depression (2012). Andrew Mangham is Professor of Victorian Literature and Medical Humanities at the University of Reading. He is the author of Violent Women and Sensation Fiction (2007), Dickens's Forensic Realism (2016) and The Science of Starving (2020). He has edited the Cambridge Companion to Sensation Fiction (2013), The Female Body in Medicine and Literature (2011) and The Male Body in Medicine and Literature (2018).