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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Sandra Dinter , Sarah Schäfer-AlthausPublisher: Springer International Publishing AG Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan Edition: 1st ed. 2023 ISBN: 9783031170225ISBN 10: 3031170229 Pages: 296 Publication Date: 16 March 2024 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION 1 Intersections of Medicine and Mobility in 19th-Century Britain Sandra Dinter and Sarah Schäfer-Althaus.- SECTION I: 19TH-CENTURY THERAPEUTIC TRAVEL AND MEDICAL TOURISM.- 2 Doctors’ Ships: Voyages for Health in the Late 19th-Century.- Sally Shuttleworth 3 Modes of Seasickness: London-Margate 1815–1846 Matthew Ingleby.- SECTION II: BETWEEN CONTAGION AND CURE: WATER AS AMBIGUOUS MATTER.- 4 The Mobility of Water: Aquatic Transformation and Disease in Victorian Literature Ursula Kluwick.- 5 Watering Holes: Healthy Waters and Moral Dangers in the 19th-Century Novel Pamela K. Gilbert.- SECTION III: MOBILITY AND THE GENDERED MEDICAL GAZE.- 6 Exposure, Friction, and ‘Peculiar Feelings’: Victorian Travelling Skin Ariane de Waal.- 7 Gendered Mobility in George Eliot’s The Mill on the Floss (1860) Monika Class.- 8 Embodied Interdependencies of Health and Travel in The Portrait of a Lady and Tess of the d’Urbervilles Natasha Audrey Anderson.- SECTION IV: RESTLESS AND RESTRICTED: THEPATHOLOGIES OF MOVEMENT.- 9 (Mental) Health and Travel: Mary Shelley and George Gissing Crossing Borders Heidi Liedke.- 10 A “Feverish Restlessness”: Decadent Mobility in Late Victorian Poetry Stefanie John.- 11 The Wandering Irish: Prisons, Asylums and the Mobility of Lunacy in Late 19th-Century Lancashire Hilary Marland and Catherine Cox.- SECTION V: MEDICAL PRECAUTIONS FOR BRITISH COLONIZERS.- 12 From Heroic Exploration to Careful Control: Mobility, Health and Medicine in the British African Empire Markku Hokkanen.- 13 Travelling Objects: Commodity Culture and Victorian Geographies of Health Monika Pietrzak-Franger.ReviewsAuthor InformationSandra Dinter is Junior Professor of British Literature and Culture at the University of Hamburg, Germany. Her research focuses on representations of mobility, gender, and space in the long nineteenth century. Sarah Schäfer-Althaus is Lecturer of Anglophone Literature and Culture at the University of Koblenz, Germany. Her research focuses on women, gender, and sexuality studies, body theory, and the history of medicine. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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