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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Sally Shuttleworth , Melissa Dickson , Emilie Taylor-Brown , Laurens SchlichtPublisher: Manchester University Press Imprint: Manchester University Press Dimensions: Width: 13.80cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 21.60cm Weight: 0.599kg ISBN: 9781526133687ISBN 10: 1526133687 Pages: 392 Publication Date: 31 January 2020 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , General/trade , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsIntroduction – Melissa Dickson, Emilie Taylor-Brown, and Sally Shuttleworth Part I: Constructing the modern self 1 Revolutionary shocks: the French human sciences and the crafting of modern subjectivity, 1794–1816 – Laurens Schlicht 2 Medical negligence in nineteenth-century Germany – Torsten Riotte 3 Imperfect bodies: the ‘pathology’ of childhood in late nineteenth-century London – Steven Taylor 4 Phrenology as neurodiversity: the Fowlers and modern brain disorder – Kristine Swenson Part II: Paradoxes of modern living 5 A disease-free world: the hygienic utopia in Jules Verne, Camille Flammarion, and William Morris – Manon Mathias 6 ‘Drooping with the century’: fatigue and the fin de siècle – Steffan Blayney 7 ‘A rebellion of the cells’: cancer, modernity, and decline in fin-de-siècle Britain – Agnes Arnold-Forster 8 The curse and the gift of modernity in late nineteenth-century suicide discourse in Finland – Mikko Myllykangas Part III: Negotiating global modernities 9 From physiograms to cosmograms: Daktar Binodbihari Ray Kabiraj and the metaphorics of the nineteenth-century Ayurvedic body – Projit Bihari Mukharji 10 From Schenectady to Shanghai: Dr Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale People and the hybrid pathways of Chinese modernity – Alice Tsay 11 Poisonous arrows and unsound minds: hysterical tetanus in the Victorian South Pacific – Daniel Simpson Part IV: Reflections and provocation 12 What is your complaint? Health as moral economy in the long nineteenth century – Christopher Hamlin Bibliography Index -- .ReviewsAuthor InformationMelissa Dickson is a Lecturer in Victorian Literature at the University of Birmingham, and was formerly a Postdoctoral researcher on the Diseases of Modern Life project at St Anne’s College, Oxford Emilie Taylor-Brown is a Postdoctoral Researcher on the Diseases of Modern Life project at St Anne’s College, Oxford Sally Shuttleworth is Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford -- . Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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