Medicine and mobility in Nineteenth-Century British literature, history, and culture / Sandra Dinter, Sarah Schäfer-Althaus, editors.
Dinter, Sandra.; Schäfer-Althaus, Sarah.
2023
PR1145 .M44 2023
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Medicine and mobility in Nineteenth-Century British literature, history, and culture / Sandra Dinter, Sarah Schäfer-Althaus, editors.
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9783031170201 electronic book
3031170202 electronic book
9783031170195 print
3031170199
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-17020-1
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Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, an imprint of Springer, [2023]
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English
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1 online resource (302 p.).
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10.1007/978-3-031-17020-1 doi
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PR1145 .M44 2023
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809/.93561
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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 Schfer-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.
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Schäfer-Althaus, Sarah.
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Studies in mobilities, literature, and culture.
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Intro
Acknowledgements
Contents
Notes on Contributors
List of Figures
Chapter 1: Medicine and Mobility in Nineteenth-Century British Literature, History, and Culture: An Introduction
Historical Coordinates: Medicine, Mobility, and Their Entanglements in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Theoretical Cornerstones: Mobility Studies and the Medical Humanities
Dissecting Medicine and Mobility in Nineteenth-Century Britain: The Contributions
Works Cited
Part I: Travel and Health
Chapter 2: Doctors' Ships: Voyages for Health in the Late Nineteenth Century

The Ocean as a Health Resort
A Doctor's Narrative: Francis Workman
Life On-Board the Sobraon: Passenger Narratives
Ship Newspapers
The Arrival of the Invalids
Conclusion: Slow Travel for Health
Works Cited
Chapter 3: Watering Holes: Healthy Waters and Moral Dangers in the Nineteenth-Century Novel
Bathing
Spas and Seaside Resorts
The Novel
Conclusion: Spa Novels and Sedentarism
Notes
Works Cited
Chapter 4: Embodied Interdependencies of Health and Travel in Henry James's The Portrait of a Lady and Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles

Movements of Travellers and Dancers
Ailing and Itinerant Bodies as Liminal Spaces of Health
Maternity, Mobility, and Mortality
Conclusion: Victorian Heroines' Health and Travel
Notes
Works Cited
Chapter 5: (Mental) Health and Travel: Reflections on the Benefits of Idling in the Victorian Age
Mary Shelley and (Mental) Health
Taking a Rest? Dickens and Collins
Gissing's Brooding
Conclusion: Resting Minds in Idly Moving Bodies
Notes
Works Cited
Part II: Pathologising Mobilities

Chapter 6: Upright Posture and Gendered Styles of Body Movements in The Mill on the Floss
Masculine Variations of Body Movements: Tom's Correct Posture
Feminine Variations of Body Movements: Maggie's Deviant Posture
Conclusion: Maggie's Expansion of the Victorian Repertoire of Feminine Mobility and Beyond
Works Cited
Chapter 7: The Mobility of Water: Aquatic Transformation and Disease in Victorian Literature
Mobile Matter
Aquatic Transformations: Rain as an Agent of Disease in The Woman in White
The Flow of Disease: Aquatic Infection in Three Men in a Boat

Conclusion: Aquatic Agency and Mobility
Works Cited
Chapter 8: A "Feverish Restlessness": Dance as Decadent Mobility in Late Victorian Poetry
Urban Mobility, Dance, and the Medical Rhetoric of Late Victorian Cultural Criticism
Compulsive Restlessness: Oscar Wilde's Dancers
The Malady of Monotony: Arthur Symons's Dancers
Paralysis and Desire: Michael Field's Dancers
Conclusion: Progressing in Circles
Works Cited
Chapter 9: The Wandering Irish: Mobility and Lunacy in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Lancashire
Reception, Discrimination, and Anti-Irishness

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