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Somatic Fictions - Imagining Illness In Victorian Culture (Paperback)
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Somatic Fictions - Imagining Illness In Victorian Culture (Paperback)
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"Somatic Fictions" focuses on the centrality of
illness--particularly psycho-somatic 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. Vrettos 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 work of a variety of
novelists--Charlotte Bronte, Elizabeth Gaskell, George Eliot, Henry
James, Louisa May Alcott, Harriet Beecher Stowe, George Meredith,
Bram Stoker, and H. Rider Haggard--she explores the historical
assumptions, patterns of perception, and structures of belief that
invested sick and heat with cultural meaning.
Illness, with its power to make one's body seem alien, or to link
disparate groups of people through contagion, suggested to
Victorians the potential instability of social and biological
identities. Displacing chaotic social issues onto matters of
physiology, they managed a variety of social issues, including
questions of race, imperialism, anthropometry, and health. This
book explores how Victorian narrative registers fears of psychic
and somatic permeability, sympathetic identification with another's
pain, and conflicting measures of racial and cultural fitness.
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