Main description:

Medicine and Mobility in Nineteenth-Century British Literature, History, and Culture analyses the cultural and literary histories of medicine and mobility as entangled processes whose discourses and practices constituted, influenced, and transformed each other. Presenting case studies of novels, poetry, travel narratives, diaries, ship magazines, skin care manuals, asylum records, press reports, and various other sources, its chapters identify and discuss diverse literary, historical, and cultural texts, contexts, and modes in which medicine and mobility intersected in nineteenth-century Britain, its empire, and beyond, whereby they illustrate how the paradigms of mobility studies and the medical humanities can complement each other.

Contents:

INTRODUCTION 1 Intersections of Medicine and Mobility in 19th-Century Britain Sandra Dinter and Sarah Schafer-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: THE PATHOLOGIES 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.