Literature and Medicine
The Nineteenth Century

Table of Contents

List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Literature and Medicine in the Nineteenth Century Andrew Mangham
Part I. Epistemologies:
1. Modes of Realism in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Medicine Meegan Kennedy
2. Experimentalism in Late-Victorian Novels Anne Stiles
3. Exhibiting Bodies: Museums, Collecting and Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century Literature Verity Burke
4. 'All Kinds of Carcasses I Have Cut Up': Anatomy in Nineteenth-century Gothic Fiction Laurence Talairach
Part II. Professionalisation:
5. Physic and Metaphysics: Poetry and the Unsteady Ascent of Professional Medicine Daniel Brown
6. Class, Sexuality, and the Victorian Nurse Arlene Young
7. Controversy: Pharmacology and Uncertainty in Nineteenth-century Medicine and Fiction Keir Waddington and Martin Willis
Part III. Responses:
8. Disorders of the Age: Nervous Climates Sally Shuttleworth and Melissa Dickson
9. Medicine, Sanitary Reform and Literature of Urban Poverty Andrew Mangham
10. Flexible Bodies, Astral Minds: Gendered Mind-body Practices and Colonial Medicine Narin Hassan
11. The Other 'Other Victorians': Normative Sexualities in Victorian Literature Pamela K. Gilbert
12. Physical 'Wholeness' and 'Incompleteness' in Victorian Prosthesis Narratives Ryan Sweet
Index.