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This book explores television's current fascination with the
Edwardian era. By exploring popular period dramas such as Downton
Abbey , it examines how the early twentieth century is represented
on our screens, and what these shows tell us about class, gender
and politics, both past and present.
This book explores television's current fascination with the
Edwardian era. By exploring popular period dramas such as Downton
Abbey , it examines how the early twentieth century is represented
on our screens, and what these shows tell us about class, gender
and politics, both past and present.
This timely collection examines representations of medicine and
medical practices in international period drama television. A
preoccupation with medical plots and settings can be found across a
range of important historical series, including Outlander, Poldark,
The Knick, Call the Midwife, La Peste and A Place to Call Home.
Such shows offer a critique of medical history while demonstrating
how contemporary viewers access and understand the past. Topics
covered in this collection include the innovations and horrors of
surgery; the intersection of gender, class, race and medicine on
the American frontier; psychiatry and the trauma of war; and the
connections between past and present pandemics. Featuring original
chapters on period television from the UK, the US, Spain and
Australia, Diagnosing history offers an accessible, global and
multidisciplinary contribution to both televisual and medical
history. -- .
Never before has period drama offered viewers such an assortment of
complex male characters, from transported felons and syphilitic
detectives to shell shocked soldiers and gangland criminals.
Neo-Victorian Gothic fictions like Penny Dreadful represent
masculinity at its darkest, Poldark and Outlander have refashioned
the romantic hero and anti-heritage series like Peaky Blinders
portray masculinity in crisis, at moments when the patriarchy was
being bombarded by forces like World War I, the rise of first wave
feminism and the breakdown of Empire. Scholars of film, media,
literature and history explore the very different types of maleness
offered by contemporary television and show how the intersection of
class, race, history and masculinity in period dramas has come to
hold such broad appeal to twenty-first-century audiences.
Rape in Period Drama Television considers the representation of
rape and rape myths in a number of the most influential recent
television period dramas. Like the corset, has become a shorthand
for women's oppression in the past. Sexual violence has long been,
and still is, commonplace in television period drama, often used to
add authenticity and realism to shows or as a sensationalist means
of chasing ratings. However, the authors illustrate that the
depiction of rape is more than a mere reminder that the past was a
dangerous place for women (and some men). In these series, they
argue, rape functions as a kind of "anti-heritage" device that
dispels the nostalgia usually associated with period television and
reflects back on the current cultural moment, in which the #MeToo
and #Timesup movement have increased awareness of the prevalence of
sexual abuse, but in which legal and political processes have not
yet caught up. In doing so, Rape in Period Drama Television sets
out to explore the assumptions and beliefs which audiences continue
to hold about rape, rapists, and victims.
Never before has period drama offered viewers such an assortment of
complex male characters, from transported felons and syphilitic
detectives to shell shocked soldiers and gangland criminals.
Neo-Victorian Gothic fictions like Penny Dreadful represent
masculinity at its darkest, Poldark and Outlander have refashioned
the romantic hero and anti-heritage series like Peaky Blinders
portray masculinity in crisis, at moments when the patriarchy was
being bombarded by forces like World War I, the rise of first wave
feminism and the breakdown of Empire. Scholars of film, media,
literature and history explore the very different types of maleness
offered by contemporary television and show how the intersection of
class, race, history and masculinity in period dramas has come to
hold such broad appeal to twenty-first-century audiences.
Tuberculosis was a widespread and deadly disease which devastated
the British population in the nineteenth century: consequently it
also had a huge impact upon public consciousness. This text
explores the representations of tuberculosis in nineteenth-century
literature and culture. Fears about gender roles, degeneration,
national efficiency and sexual transgression all play their part in
the portrayal of 'consumption', a disease which encompassed a
variety of cultural associations. Through an examination of a range
of Victorian texts, from well-known and popular novels by Charles
Dickens and Elizabeth Gaskell to critically neglected works by Mrs
Humphry Ward and Charles Reade, this work reveals the metaphors of
illness which surrounded tuberculosis and the ways those metaphors
were used in the fiction of the day. The book also contains
detailed analysis of the substantial body of writing by
nineteenth-century physicians which exists about this disease, and
examines the complex relationship between medical 'fact' and
literary fiction.
Tuberculosis was a widespread and deadly disease which devastated
the British population in the nineteenth century: consequently it
also had a huge impact upon public consciousness. This text
explores the representations of tuberculosis in nineteenth-century
literature and culture. Fears about gender roles, degeneration,
national efficiency and sexual transgression all play their part in
the portrayal of 'consumption', a disease which encompassed a
variety of cultural associations. Through an examination of a range
of Victorian texts, from well-known and popular novels by Charles
Dickens and Elizabeth Gaskell to critically neglected works by Mrs
Humphry Ward and Charles Reade, this work reveals the metaphors of
illness which surrounded tuberculosis and the ways those metaphors
were used in the fiction of the day. The book also contains
detailed analysis of the substantial body of writing by
nineteenth-century physicians which exists about this disease, and
examines the complex relationship between medical 'fact' and
literary fiction.
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