Science, Medicine, and Aristocratic Lineage in Victorian Popular Fiction

Boucher, Abigail

  • 出版商: Palgrave MacMillan
  • 出版日期: 2024-09-02
  • 售價: $4,780
  • 貴賓價: 9.5$4,541
  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 237
  • 裝訂: Quality Paper - also called trade paper
  • ISBN: 3031411439
  • ISBN-13: 9783031411434
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Science, Medicine, and Aristocratic Lineage in Victorian Popular Fiction explores the dialogue between popular literature and medical and scientific discourse in terms of how they represent the highly visible an pathologized British aristocratic body. This books explores and complicates the two major portrayals of aristocrats in nineteenth-century literature: that of the medicalised, frail, debauched, and diseased aristocrat, and that of the heroic, active, beautiful 'noble', both of which are frequent and resonant in popular fiction of the long nineteenth century. Abigail Boucher argues that the concept of class in the long nineteenth century implicitly includes notions of blood, lineage, and bodily 'correctness', and that 'class' was therefore frequently portrayed as an empirical, scientific, and medical certainty. Due to their elevated and highly visual social positions, both historical and fictional aristocrats were frequently pathologized in the public mind and watchedfor signs of physical excellence or deviance. Using popular fiction, Boucher establishes patterns across decades, genres, and demographics and considers how these patterns react to, normalise, or feed into the advent of new scientific and medical understandings.

商品描述(中文翻譯)

《科學、醫學與維多利亞時代流行小說中的貴族血統》探討了流行文學與醫學及科學話語之間的對話,特別是它們如何呈現高度可見且被病理化的英國貴族身體。本書探討並複雜化了十九世紀文學中對貴族的兩種主要描繪:一種是醫療化、虛弱、放蕩且多病的貴族,另一種是英勇、活躍、美麗的「貴族」,這兩種形象在長達十九世紀的流行小說中頻繁且引人共鳴。Abigail Boucher主張,長期的十九世紀中,階級的概念隱含了血統、血脈和身體「正確性」的觀念,因此「階級」經常被描繪為一種經驗的、科學的和醫學的確定性。由於其高尚且高度可見的社會地位,歷史上和虛構中的貴族常常在公眾心中被病理化,並被觀察是否有身體卓越或偏差的跡象。Boucher利用流行小說建立了跨越數十年、類型和人口統計的模式,並考慮這些模式如何對新科學和醫學理解的出現作出反應、正常化或促進。

作者簡介

Abigail Boucher is Lecturer in English Literature at Aston University, UK.


作者簡介(中文翻譯)

Abigail Boucher 是英國阿斯頓大學的英國文學講師。