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Intro
Acknowledgements
Contents
Notes on Contributors
List of Figures
Chapter 1: Introduction: Testing the Boundaries of Being in the Long Nineteenth Century
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Part I: The Limits of Life
Chapter 2: Drunkenness, Compulsion, and the Disintegration of the Self: Erasmus Darwin's Theory of Ebrietas in the Writings of Maria Edgeworth
The Dangers of Vinous Potation
Alcohol in Ascendancy Ireland
The Monstrous Female Drunkard
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Chapter 3: Intersex Boundaries: Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Hermaphroditic Bodies
Eighteenth-Century Hermaphroditism
Sexologists, Case Studies, and Hermaphroditisms
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Chapter 4: The Catheter Life: a Social History of Ageing, Risk, and Surgical Innovation in Britain's Long Nineteenth Century
A Palliative, a Problem, or Perfection? Defining the "Catheter Life," 1805-1910
Treating the Catheter Life on Harley Street, 1895-1921
Conquering the Catheter Life: Some Reflections on the Meaning of Old Age in British Culture at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
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Part II: Death's Embrace
Chapter 5: He Does Not Suffer Now: Death and Citizenship in the National Tale
Necro Citizenship: Bodies, History, and Death in the Community of the National Tale
The Last Violent Feeling of Mortal Emotion: Bare Life and the Death of Disruptive History in The Wild Irish Girl
Consoled by Society's Approval: Death and Social Approval in Corinne
He's the Same as Dead: Semi-Death and Citizenship in Ennui
Belonging or Mere Existence: A Conclusion
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Chapter 6: "Thy paleness makes me glad": Death, Sympathy, and the Body in Keats's Isabella
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Chapter 7: Poe In Extremis
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Part III: The Veil of Consciousness
Chapter 8: "[T]o Feel Powers at Work in the Common Air Unfelt by Others": Receptivity and the Vanishing Body in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
The Vanishing Body
Nervous Connections: Sensibility and Sympathy between Refinement and Pathology
Consumption, Sympathy, and Sacrifice
"Half in Love with Easeful Death." John Keats as a Vanishing Body
George Eliot, Expanded Sympathy, and the Pathology of the Vanishing Body
Walter Pater's "Diaphanous" Bodies and the Artist as Medium
Conclusion: Vanishing into "the Herzian Wave of Tuberculosis"
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Chapter 9: Grasping Spiritualists and Besotted Scientists: The Female Medium's Body as Battleground
The Medium and the Message
Vampire Women
Taking Control
Conclusion
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Chapter 10: Consequential Madness: Gender and Power in Romantic-Period Madhouse Literature
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Chapter 11: Wandering Attention: Victorian Daydreaming, Disembodiment, and the Boundaries of Consciousness
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Index
Acknowledgements
Contents
Notes on Contributors
List of Figures
Chapter 1: Introduction: Testing the Boundaries of Being in the Long Nineteenth Century
Works Cited
Part I: The Limits of Life
Chapter 2: Drunkenness, Compulsion, and the Disintegration of the Self: Erasmus Darwin's Theory of Ebrietas in the Writings of Maria Edgeworth
The Dangers of Vinous Potation
Alcohol in Ascendancy Ireland
The Monstrous Female Drunkard
Works Cited
Chapter 3: Intersex Boundaries: Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Hermaphroditic Bodies
Eighteenth-Century Hermaphroditism
Sexologists, Case Studies, and Hermaphroditisms
Works Cited
Chapter 4: The Catheter Life: a Social History of Ageing, Risk, and Surgical Innovation in Britain's Long Nineteenth Century
A Palliative, a Problem, or Perfection? Defining the "Catheter Life," 1805-1910
Treating the Catheter Life on Harley Street, 1895-1921
Conquering the Catheter Life: Some Reflections on the Meaning of Old Age in British Culture at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
Works Cited
Part II: Death's Embrace
Chapter 5: He Does Not Suffer Now: Death and Citizenship in the National Tale
Necro Citizenship: Bodies, History, and Death in the Community of the National Tale
The Last Violent Feeling of Mortal Emotion: Bare Life and the Death of Disruptive History in The Wild Irish Girl
Consoled by Society's Approval: Death and Social Approval in Corinne
He's the Same as Dead: Semi-Death and Citizenship in Ennui
Belonging or Mere Existence: A Conclusion
Works Cited
Chapter 6: "Thy paleness makes me glad": Death, Sympathy, and the Body in Keats's Isabella
Works Cited
Chapter 7: Poe In Extremis
Works Cited
Part III: The Veil of Consciousness
Chapter 8: "[T]o Feel Powers at Work in the Common Air Unfelt by Others": Receptivity and the Vanishing Body in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
The Vanishing Body
Nervous Connections: Sensibility and Sympathy between Refinement and Pathology
Consumption, Sympathy, and Sacrifice
"Half in Love with Easeful Death." John Keats as a Vanishing Body
George Eliot, Expanded Sympathy, and the Pathology of the Vanishing Body
Walter Pater's "Diaphanous" Bodies and the Artist as Medium
Conclusion: Vanishing into "the Herzian Wave of Tuberculosis"
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Chapter 9: Grasping Spiritualists and Besotted Scientists: The Female Medium's Body as Battleground
The Medium and the Message
Vampire Women
Taking Control
Conclusion
Works Cited
Chapter 10: Consequential Madness: Gender and Power in Romantic-Period Madhouse Literature
Works Cited
Chapter 11: Wandering Attention: Victorian Daydreaming, Disembodiment, and the Boundaries of Consciousness
Works Cited
Index