The science of starving in Victorian literature, medicine, and political economy / Andre Mangham.
Studying works by Charles Kingsley, Elizabeth Gaskell, and Charles Dickens, this volume illustrates how the Victorians used medicine and literature to develop a new way of thinking about starvation and the State.
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2020.
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Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Halftitle page
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Dedication page
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- Abbreviations
- Epigraph
- Introduction
- 1. Starvation Science and Political Economy
- Irish Hunger
- God's Will in Ireland
- Salutary Starvation
- Material Starvation
- Unholy Starvation
- The Social and Political Climate
- Reasoned Analysis
- Starvation Statistics
- William Farr vs. Edwin Chadwick
- Famine Fever
- Waste Economies: George Henry Lewes vs. Justus von Liebig
- 2. Charles Kingsley: 'The Symbolism and Dignity of Matter'
- Materialist Christianity
- 1848.
- Tailor Hunting
- Yeast and Yeast
- The Chadwickiad
- Herbert Spencer
- Flesh and Blood Poetry
- 3. Elizabeth Gaskell: 'Clemming'
- Modes of Thinking
- William Carpenter and Henry Holland
- Manchester Realism
- Unitarianism
- Gaskell's Realism
- Hunger and Anger
- The Lancashire Cotton Famine and Sylvia's Lovers
- Philip Hepburn's Body
- 4. Charles Dickens: 'Nothink and Starwation'
- Nothink
- Seeing Dogmatically
- All a Muddle
- The Tooting Disease and the New Poor Law
- Seeing Intelligently
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index.