Cholera and Nation : Doctoring the Social Body in Victorian England - Pamela K. Gilbert

Cholera and Nation

Doctoring the Social Body in Victorian England

By: Pamela K. Gilbert

Hardcover | 10 January 2008

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This book explains how cholera epidemics affected Victorian perceptions of the body and the nation.
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"...richly diverse: the book extends well beyond the often limited reach of medical histories into popular and social response and into Church and doctrinal writings." - Victorian Studies "...Gilbert's commentary on the four cholera epidemics that besieged Britain between 1832 and 1866 registers the important exchanges occurring between Victorian religious, political, and medical discourses ... her discussion is remarkable for its astute attention to important schools of criticism and their critics (from postcolonialism and Homi Bhabha to psychoanalysis and Julia Kristeva) ... the book brings together crucial sources that will be starting points for anyone interested in studying the rhetorical interdependence of Victorian health and various social factions." - CHOICE "This is a very skillful example of historically sound literary criticism; it combines attention to narrative with relevant historical contextualization, and offers a detailed account of the literary history of a subject not commonly treated through literature. This is innovative and complements more conventional historical work on the subject of public health and medicine in the Victorian period." - Antoinette Burton, editor of Archive Stories: Facts, Fictions, and the Writing of History

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