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A valuable summary of mid-nineteenth-century ideas about health and mind-body relations in the decades when concepts of evolution and heredity were being developed. This book is equally important as a history or American studies text as it is for readers of literature.""--Journal of American History There is much to admire in The Perfecting of Nature. Its surveys of popular somatic reform literatures compellingly demonstrate why these deserve our careful attention, and it convincingly demonstrates the subtle yet pervasive reverberations of these theories across the literary texts it examines.""--ALH Online Review

A valuable summary of mid-nineteenth-century ideas about health and mind-body relations in the decades when concepts of evolution and heredity were being developed. This book is equally important as a history or American studies text as it is for readers of literature. - The Journal of American History There is much to admire in The Perfecting of Nature. Its surveys of popular somatic reform literatures compellingly demonstrate why these deserve our careful attention, and it convincingly demonstrates the subtle yet pervasive reverberations of these theories across the literary texts it examines. - ALH Online Review

A valuable summary of mid-nineteenth-century ideas about health and mind-body relations in the decades when concepts of evolution and heredity were being developed. This book is equally important as a history or American studies text as it is for readers of literature. - The Journal of American History There is much to admire in The Perfecting of Nature. Its surveys of popular somatic reform literatures compellingly demonstrate why these deserve our careful attention, and it convincingly demonstrates the subtle yet pervasive reverberations of these theories across the literary texts it examines. - ALH Online Review

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Josh Doty is assistant professor of English at St. Mary's University.

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