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The Science of Starving in Victorian Literature, Medicine, and Political Economy (Hardcover)
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The Science of Starving in Victorian Literature, Medicine, and Political Economy (Hardcover)
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The Science of Starving in Victorian Literature, Medicine, and
Political Economy is a reassessment of the languages and
methodologies used, throughout the nineteenth century, for
discussing extreme hunger in Britain. Set against the
providentialism of conservative political economy, this study
uncovers an emerging, dynamic way of describing literal starvation
in medicine and physiology. No longer seen as a divine punishment
for individual failings, starvation became, in the human sciences,
a pathology whose horrific symptoms registered failings of state
and statute. Providing new and historically-rich readings of the
works of Charles Kingsley, Elizabeth Gaskell, and Charles Dickens,
this book suggests that the realism we have come to associate with
Victorian social problem fiction learned a vast amount from the
empirical, materialist objectives of the medical sciences and that,
within the mechanics of these intersections, we find important
re-examinations of how we might think about this ongoing
humanitarian issue.
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