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OverviewThis book explores how the writers, poets, thinkers, historians, scientists, dilettantes and frauds of the long-nineteenth century addressed the “limit cases” regarding human existence that medicine continuously uncovered as it stretched the boundaries of knowledge. These cases cast troubling and distorted shadows on the culture, throwing into relief the values, vested interests, and power relations regarding the construction of embodied life and consciousness that underpinned the understanding of what it was to be alive in the long nineteenth century. Ranging over a period from the mid-eighteenth century through to the first decade of the twentieth century—an era that has been called the ‘Age of Science’—the essays collected here consider the cultural ripple effects of those previously unimaginable revolutions in science and medicine on humanity’s understanding of being. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Lucy Cogan , Michelle O'ConnellPublisher: Springer International Publishing AG Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan Edition: 1st ed. 2022 Weight: 0.514kg ISBN: 9783031133626ISBN 10: 3031133625 Pages: 280 Publication Date: 09 November 2022 Audience: Professional and scholarly , 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 Contents1 Introduction: Testing the Boundaries of Being in the Long Nineteenth CenturyPart I The Limits of Life 2 Drunkenness, Compulsion, and the Disintegration of the Self: Erasmus Darwin’s Theory of Ebrietas in the Writings of Maria Edgeworth3 Intersex Boundaries: Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Hermaphroditic Bodies4 The Catheter Life: a Social History of Ageing, Risk, and Surgical Innovation in Britain’s Long Nineteenth CenturyPart II Death’s Embrace 5 He Does Not Suffer Now: Death and Citizenship in the National Tale 6 “Thy paleness makes me glad”: Death, Sympathy, and the Body in Keats’s Isabella 7 Poe In Extremis Part III The Veil of Consciousness 8 “[T]o Feel Powers at Work in the Common Air Unfelt by Others”: Receptivity and the Vanishing Body in Nineteenth-CenturyLiterature and Culture 9 Grasping Spiritualists and Besotted Scientists: The Female Medium’s Body as Battleground 10 Consequential Madness: Gender and Power in Romantic-Period Madhouse Literature 11 Wandering Attention: Victorian Daydreaming, Disembodiment, and the Boundaries of ConsciousnessReviewsAuthor InformationLucy Cogan is Lecturer in English (Long-Eighteenth Century) at NUI Galway, Ireland. She has published a monograph on William Blake entitled Blake and the Failure of Prophecy (2021) and a range of articles and essays on gender and sexuality in Blake’s writing, and on women’s writing in the long-eighteenth century. Michelle O’Connell is Lecturer in Romantic Literature at University College Dublin, Ireland. She has published essays and articles on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century poetry and fiction, and is currently working on a full-length study of the construction of the nineteenth-century female poetic subject. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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