Disease, Desire, and the Body in Victorian Women's Popular by Pamela K. Gilbert

By Pamela K. Gilbert

renowned fiction in mid-Victorian Britain used to be considered as either female and diseased. severe articles of the time on fiction and at the physique and disorder supply convincing proof that interpreting used to be metaphorically allied with consuming, contagion and intercourse. apprehensive critics traced the an infection of the imperial, fit physique of masculine elite tradition by means of 'diseased' renowned fiction, in particular novels via ladies. This ebook discusses works via 3 novelists - M. E. Braddon, Rhoda Broughton, and 'Ouida' - inside of this historic context. In every one case, the comparability of an early, 'sensation' novel opposed to a later paintings exhibits how widespread categorization labored within the context of social issues to comprise nervousness and restrict interpretive percentages. in the texts themselves, references to modern severe and scientific literatures face up to or take advantage of mid-Victorian innovations of health and wellbeing, nationality, type and the body.

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