Victorian Medicine and Popular Culture by Penner, Louise

Victorian Medicine and Popular Culture (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780822966432)

Vendor: Louise Penner
Product type: Books
Format: Paperback
$55.00
$55.00
$55.00
Subtotal: $55.00
Victorian Medicine and Popular Culture by Penner, Louise

Victorian Medicine and Popular Culture

$55.00
Victorian Medicine and Popular Culture by Penner, Louise

Victorian Medicine and Popular Culture

$55.00
Format: Paperback
Description
Description
x
This collection of essays explores the rise of scientific medicine and its impact on Victorian popular culture. Chapters include an examination of Charles Dickens's involvement with hospital funding, concerns over milk purity and the theatrical portrayal of drug addiction, plus a whole section devoted to the representation of medicine in crime fiction. This is an interdisciplinary study involving public health, cultural studies, the history of medicine, literature and the theatre, providing new insights into Victorian culture and society.

Author: Louise Penner
ISBN-10: 0822966433
ISBN-13: 9780822966432
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Language: English
Published: 12/01/2020
Pages: 196
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.70h x 5.70w x 0.60d
By Louise Penner
By Louise Penner
x
Louise Penner (Editor)
Louise Penner is associate professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Boston. She is the author of Victorian Medicine and Social Reform: Florence Nightingale among the Novelists.

Tabitha Sparks (Editor)
Tabitha Sparks is associate professor of English at McGill University. She is the author of The Doctor in the Victorian Novel: Family Practices.

Recently Viewed Products