Research Catalog

Title

Victorian medicine and popular culture / edited by Louise Penner and Tabitha Sparks.

Publication

London : Pickering & Chatto, 2015.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Penner, Louise
• Sparks, Tabitha

Description

xiii, 182 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

This collection of essays explores the rise of scientific medicine and its impact on Victorian popular culture. Chapters include an examination of Dickens's involvement with hospital funding, concerns over milk purity and the theatrical portrayal of drug addiction, plus a whole section devoted to medicine in crime fiction.

Series Statement

Science and culture in the nineteenth century ; 28

Uniform Title

Science and culture in the nineteenth century ; no. 28.

Subjects

• Medicine in literature
• Popular culture > Great Britain > History > 19th century
• Public health > Great Britain > History > 19th century
• Medicine > Great Britain > History > 19th century

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction / Louise Penner and Tabitha Sparks -- 'Dr Locock and his Quack': Professionalizing medicine, textualizing identity in the 1840s / Kevin A. Morrison -- Dickens, metropolitan philanthropy and the London hospitals / Louise Penner -- Cleanliness and medicinal cheer: Harriet Martineau, the 'People of Bleaburn' and the sanitary work of Household Words / Meegan Kennedy -- Lacteal crises: Debates over milk purity in Victorian Britain / Jacob Steere-Williams -- 'The chemistry and botany of the kitchen': Scientific and domestic attempts to prevent food adulteration / Julie Kraft -- Medical bluebeards: The domestic threat of the poisoning doctor in the popular fiction of Ellen Wood / Cheryl Blake Price -- Male hysteria, sexual inversion and the sensational hero in Wilkie Collins's Armadale / Marc Milton Ducusin -- Ungentlemanly habits: The dramaturgy of drug addiction in Fin-de Siècle theatrical adaptations of the Sherlock Holmes stories and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde / Meredith Conti -- From vivisection to gender reassignment: Imagining the feminine in The Island of Doctor Moreau / Ellen J. Stockstill -- Illness as metaphor in the Victorian novel: Reading popular fiction against medical history / Tabitha Sparks.

Call Number

JFE 17-8010

ISBN

• 9781848935693
• 1848935692

OCLC

910229601

Title

Victorian medicine and popular culture / edited by Louise Penner and Tabitha Sparks.

Publisher

London : Pickering & Chatto, 2015.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Science and culture in the nineteenth century ; 28

Science and culture in the nineteenth century ; no. 28.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Penner, Louise, editor.

Sparks, Tabitha, editor.

Research Call Number

JFE 17-8010