The Science of Starving in Victorian Literature, Medicine, and Political Economy

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Publisher: Oxford University Press
Year: 2020
Tongue: English
Leaves: 225
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

The Science of Starving in Victorian Literature, Medicine, and Political Economy is a reassessment of the languages and methodologies used, throughout the nineteenth century, for discussing extreme hunger in Britain. Set against the providentialism of conservative political economy, this study uncovers an emerging, dynamic way of describing literal starvation in medicine and physiology. No longer seen as a divine punishment for individual failings, starvation became, in the human sciences, a pathology whose horrific symptoms registered failings of state and statute. Providing new and historically-rich readings of the works of Charles Kingsley, Elizabeth Gaskell, and Charles Dickens, this book suggests that the realism we have come to associate with Victorian social problem fiction learned a vast amount from the empirical, materialist objectives of the medical sciences and that, within the mechanics of these intersections, we find important re-examinations of how we might think about this ongoing humanitarian issue.

✦ Table of Contents

Title_Pages (1)
Dedication
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Epigraph
Introduction
Starvation_Science_and_Political_Economy
Charles_KingsleyThe_Symbolism_and_Dignity_of_Matter
Elizabeth_GaskellClemming
Charles_DickensNothink_and_Starwation
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index (1)

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