Somatic fictions: imagining illness in Victorian culture
Somatic Fictions focuses on the centrality of illness - particularly psychosomatic illness - as an imaginative construct in Victorian culture, emphasizing how it shaped the terms through which people perceived relationships between body and mind, self and other, private and public. The author uses n...
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| Zusammenfassung: | Somatic Fictions focuses on the centrality of illness - particularly psychosomatic illness - as an imaginative construct in Victorian culture, emphasizing how it shaped the terms through which people perceived relationships between body and mind, self and other, private and public. The author uses nineteenth-century fiction, diaries, medical treatises, and health advice manuals to examine how Victorians tried to understand and control their world through a process of physiological and pathological definition. Tracing the concept of illness in the fiction of a variety of authors - Charlotte Bronte, Elizabeth Gaskell, George Eliot, Henry James, Louisa May Alcott, Harriet Beecher Stowe, George Meredith, Bram Stoker, and H. Rider Haggard - Vrettos explores the historical assumptions, patterns of perceptions, and structures of belief that invested sickness and health with cultural meaning The book treats narrative as a crucial component of cultural history and demonstrates how literary, medical, and cultural narratives charted the categories through which people came to understand themselves and the structures of social interaction. Vrettos challenges those feminist and cultural historians who have maintained that nineteenth-century medical attempts to chart the meaning of bodily structures resulted in essential categories of social and sexual definition. She argues that the power of illness to make one's own body seem alien, or to link disparate groups of people through the process of contagion, suggested to Victorians the potential instability of social and biological identities The book shows how Victorians attempted to manage diffuse and chaotic social issues by displacing them onto matters of physiology. This displacement resulted in the collapse of perceived boundaries of human embodiment, whether through fears of psychic and somatic permeability, sympathetic identification with another's pain, or conflicting measures of racial and cultural fitness. In the course of her study, the author examines the relationships among health, imperialism, anthropometry, and racial theory in such popular Victorian novels as Dracula and She, and the conceptual linkage of spirituality, hysteria, and nervousness in Victorian literature and medicine |
| Beschreibung: | XII, 250 S. |
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Contents
Introduction
ι
Body Language and the Poetics of Illness
1
9
Emotional Ventriloquism
30
Eloquent Deceptions and Somatic Truth
3 5
Maternal Nursing and the Dangers of Affect
39
From Neurosis to Narrative: The Private Life of
the Nerves
48
Nervous Spirituality
50
Psychic Spaces:
Villette,
Daniel
Deronda
57
Visionary Sensibility: Daniel
Deronda
69
Incurable Narratives
75
Neuromimesis and the Medical Gaze
81
Imitation, Contagion, and the Crowd
83
Sympathy, Gender, and Medical Vision
91
Suggestible Readers
96
Affective Hermeneutics: Uncle Tom's Cabin
99
Hypnotic Spectatorship: Trilby
юг
Visual Transgression: Middlemarcb
105
Interpretive Androgyny: Wings of the Dove
111
xii Contents
4 The National Health:
Defining and Defending
Bodily Boundaries
i zą
The Ideology or Exercise
127
Domestic Fitness: The Egoist
133
The Anatomy of Empire
14г
Physical Immunity and Racial Destiny: Stoker and Haggard
154
Conclusion
177
Notes
187
Bibliography
ггі
Index
І4
1
Somatic
Fictions
Imagining Illness in Victorian Culture
ATHENA VRETTOS
Somatic Fictions focuses on the centrality of illness
—
particularly psycho¬
somatic illness
—
as an imaginative construct in Victorian culture, empha¬
sizing how it shaped the terms through which people perceived relation¬
ships between body and mind, self and other, private and public.
The author uses nineteenth-century fiction, diaries, medical treatises,
and health advice manuals to examine how Victorians tried to understand
and control their world through a process of physiological and pathologi¬
cal definition. Tracing the concept of illness in the fiction of a variety of
authors
—
Charlotte
Brontë,
Elizabeth
Gasiceli,
George Eliot, Henry
James, Louisa May Alcott, Harriet Beecher Stowe, George Meredith,
Bram
Stoker, and H. Rider Haggard
—
Vrettos explores the historical
assumptions, patterns of perceptions, and structures of belief that invested
sickness and health with cultural meaning.
The book treats narrative as a crucial component of cultural history
and demonstrates how literary, medical, and cultural narratives charted
the categories through which people came to understand themselves and
the structures of social interaction. Vrettos challenges those feminist and
cultural historians who have maintained that nineteenth-century medical
attempts to chart the meaning of bodily structures resulted in essential
categories of social and sexual definition. She argues that the power of
illness to make one's own body seem alien, or to link disparate groups of
people through the process of contagion, suggested
№
Victorians the
potencial
instability of social and biological identities.
The book shows how Victorians attempted to manage diffuse and
chaotic social issues by displacing them
ото
matters of physiology. This
displacement resulted in the collapse of perceived boundaries of human
embodiment, whether through fears of psychic and somatic permeability,
sympathetic identification with another's pain, or conflicting measures of
racial and cultural fitness. In the course of her study, the author examines
the relationships among health, imperialism, anthropometry, and racial
theory in such popular Victorian novels as
Dracula
and She and the
conceptual linkage oi spirituality, hysteria, and nervousness in Victorian
uto ature
and medicine.
AttmiaVrettas is Assistant Professor of Engfish a*d Women's Studies at |
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| spelling | Vrettos, Athena Verfasser aut Somatic fictions imagining illness in Victorian culture Athena Vrettos Stanford, Calif. Stanford Univ. Press 1995 XII, 250 S. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Somatic Fictions focuses on the centrality of illness - particularly psychosomatic illness - as an imaginative construct in Victorian culture, emphasizing how it shaped the terms through which people perceived relationships between body and mind, self and other, private and public. The author uses nineteenth-century fiction, diaries, medical treatises, and health advice manuals to examine how Victorians tried to understand and control their world through a process of physiological and pathological definition. Tracing the concept of illness in the fiction of a variety of authors - Charlotte Bronte, Elizabeth Gaskell, George Eliot, Henry James, Louisa May Alcott, Harriet Beecher Stowe, George Meredith, Bram Stoker, and H. Rider Haggard - Vrettos explores the historical assumptions, patterns of perceptions, and structures of belief that invested sickness and health with cultural meaning The book treats narrative as a crucial component of cultural history and demonstrates how literary, medical, and cultural narratives charted the categories through which people came to understand themselves and the structures of social interaction. Vrettos challenges those feminist and cultural historians who have maintained that nineteenth-century medical attempts to chart the meaning of bodily structures resulted in essential categories of social and sexual definition. She argues that the power of illness to make one's own body seem alien, or to link disparate groups of people through the process of contagion, suggested to Victorians the potential instability of social and biological identities The book shows how Victorians attempted to manage diffuse and chaotic social issues by displacing them onto matters of physiology. This displacement resulted in the collapse of perceived boundaries of human embodiment, whether through fears of psychic and somatic permeability, sympathetic identification with another's pain, or conflicting measures of racial and cultural fitness. In the course of her study, the author examines the relationships among health, imperialism, anthropometry, and racial theory in such popular Victorian novels as Dracula and She, and the conceptual linkage of spirituality, hysteria, and nervousness in Victorian literature and medicine Geschichte 1800-1900 Geschichte 1837-1901 gnd rswk-swf Geschichte 1830-1900 gnd rswk-swf Engels gtt Esprit et corps dans la littérature Fictie gtt Imagination dans la littérature Littérature et maladies mentales - Histoire - 19e siècle Malades dans la littérature Maladies dans la littérature Médecine psychosomatique dans la littérature Roman américain - 19e siècle - Histoire et critique Roman anglais - 19e siècle - Histoire et critique Santé dans la littérature Symptômes somatiques dans la littérature Victoriaanse tijd gtt Ziekten gtt Englisch Prosa American fiction 19th century History and criticism Diseases in literature English fiction 19th century History and criticism Health in literature History, 19th Century Imagination in literature Literature and medicine English-speaking countries Literature and mental illness English-speaking countries Literature, Modern Medical fiction History and criticism Medicine, Psychosomatic Mind and body in literature Psychosomatic Medicine history Sick in literature Somatoform disorders Leib-Seele-Problem (DE-588)4035151-8 gnd rswk-swf Krankheit (DE-588)4032844-2 gnd rswk-swf Krankheit Motiv (DE-588)4114304-8 gnd rswk-swf Englisch (DE-588)4014777-0 gnd rswk-swf Psychisch Kranker Motiv (DE-588)4176183-2 gnd rswk-swf Literatur (DE-588)4035964-5 gnd rswk-swf Großbritannien (DE-588)4022153-2 gnd rswk-swf Englisch (DE-588)4014777-0 s Literatur (DE-588)4035964-5 s Krankheit Motiv (DE-588)4114304-8 s Geschichte 1837-1901 z DE-604 Großbritannien (DE-588)4022153-2 g Krankheit (DE-588)4032844-2 s Leib-Seele-Problem (DE-588)4035151-8 s Geschichte 1830-1900 z DE-188 Psychisch Kranker Motiv (DE-588)4176183-2 s Digitalisierung UB Regensburg application/pdf http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&local_base=BVB01&doc_number=006903116&sequence=000003&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA Inhaltsverzeichnis Digitalisierung UB Regensburg application/pdf http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&local_base=BVB01&doc_number=006903116&sequence=000004&line_number=0002&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA Klappentext |
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| title_auth | Somatic fictions imagining illness in Victorian culture |
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| title_full | Somatic fictions imagining illness in Victorian culture Athena Vrettos |
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