Life, Death, and Consciousness in the Long Nineteenth Century

Introduction Lucy Cogan & Michelle O'Connell.- Part I: Materialism, Bodies and Embodiment.- Chapter 1: 'Poe, Lucretius and Materialism.' Robert Miles.- Chapter 2: 'The Body Impoverished: The Place of Gender and Race in Poverty Narratives of the 1880s.' Lucy Hartley.- Chapter 3: 'The Horrors of Still Life: Taxidermy and the Gothic in the Long Nineteenth Century.' Elizabeth Effinger.- Chapter 4: '"Thy paleness makes me glad": Death, Sympathy and the Body in Keats's Isabella.' Greta Columbani.- Part II: Altered States.- Chapter 5: '"The Dangers of Vinous Potation": Tracing the Influence of Erasmus Darwin's Zoonomia on Representations of Drunkenness in the Writings of Maria Edgeworth.' Lucy Cogan.- Chapter 6: 'Wandering Attention: Victorian Daydreaming and the Boundaries of Consciousness.' Athena Vrettos.- Chapter 7: 'Leonora Piper: Mediumship, Gender, and the Societies for Psychical Research.' Dara Downey.- Chapter 8: '"[T]o Feel Powers at Work in the Common Air Unfelt by Other": Receptiveness and the Vanishing Body in Victorian Literature and Culture.' Greta Perletti.- Part III: Gender and the Limits of Sex.- Chapter 9: 'Heroism Reclaimed: Age, Masculinity and Genitourinary Medicine in Edwardian London.' Kieran Fitzpatrick.- Chapter 10: 'Intersex Boundaries: Eighteenth-and Nineteenth-Century Hermaphroditic Bodies.' Jolene Zigarovich.- Chapter 11: '"Absurd Speculations": The Morbid Uterus in Haeckel, von Hartmann and Thomas Hardy's "Prenatal Poetics."' Natalie Mann.

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• História da Ciência
• Estudos literários: c 1800 a c 1900
• Estudos cultirais

Literature, Science and Medicine Studies;medical narratives;embodied self;nineteenth-century culture;Literature, Gender and Sexuality