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Consuming Culture in the Long Nineteenth Century aims to bring
together detailed analyses of the cultural myths, or fictions, of
consumption that have shaped discourses on consumer practices from
the eighteenth century onwards. Individual essays provide an
excitingly diverse range of perspectives, including musicology,
philosophy, history, and art history, cultural and postcolonial
studies as well as the study of literature in English, French, and
German. The broad scope of this collection will engage audiences
both inside and outside academia interested in the politics of food
and consumption in eighteenth and nineteenth century culture.
Consuming Culture in the Long Nineteenth Century aims to bring
together detailed analyses of the cultural myths, or fictions, of
consumption that have shaped discourses on consumer practices from
the eighteenth century onwards. Individual essays provide an
excitingly diverse range of perspectives, including musicology,
philosophy, history, and art history, cultural and postcolonial
studies as well as the study of literature in English, French, and
German. The broad scope of this collection will engage audience
both inside and outside academia interested in the politics of food
and consumption in eighteenth and nineteenth century culture.
Examining the emerging figure of the woman doctor and her
relationship to empire in Victorian culture, Narin Hassan traces
both amateur and professional 'doctoring' by British women
travelers in colonial India and the Middle East. Hassan sets the
scene by offering examples from Victorian novels that reveal the
rise of the woman doctor as a fictional trope. Similarly, medical
advice manuals by Victorian doctors aimed at families traveling
overseas emphasized how women should maintain and manage healthy
bodies in colonial locales. For Lucie Duff Gordon, Isabel Burton,
Anna Leonowens, among others, doctoring natives secured them access
to their private lives and cultural traditions. Medical texts and
travel guides produced by practicing women doctors like Mary
Scharlieb illustrate the relationship between medical progress and
colonialism. They also helped support women's medical education in
Britain and the colonies of India and the Middle East. Colonial
subjects themselves produced texts in response to colonial and
medical reform, and Hassan shows that a number of "New" Indian
women, including Krupabai Satthianadhan, participated actively in
the public sphere through their involvement in health reform. In
her epilogue, Hassan considers the continuing tradition of women's
autobiographical narrative inspired by travel and medical
knowledge, showing that in the twentieth- and twenty-first century
memoirs of South Asian and Middle Eastern women doctors, the
problem of the "Woman Question" as shaped by medical discourses
endures.
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