Andrew Mangham is Professor of Victorian Literature and Medical Humanities at the University of Reading. His books on the intersection between medicine and literature include Dickens's Forensic Realism (2017) and Violent Women and Sensation Fiction (2007). He is editor of Literature and Medicine in the Nineteenth Century (2020) and The Cambridge Companion to Sensation Fiction (2013). He has also co-edited, with Daniel Lea, The Male Body in Medicine and Literature (2018) and, with Greta Depledge, The Female Body in Medicine and Literature (2011).

The book has a substantial introduction with many references that show Mangham's wide interests and competences. It clarifies the key concept at hand, which is corporeal materialism, a biology-based approach that dissected and refuted conservative Malthusian ideas.

• Introduction 1: Starvation Science and Political Economy 2: Charles Kingsley 'The Symbolism and Dignity of Matter' 3: Elizabeth Gaskell: 'Clemming' Charles Dickens: 'Nothink and Starwation' Conclusion

Andrew Mangham is Professor of Victorian Literature and Medical Humanities at the University of Reading. His books on the intersection between medicine and literature include Dickens's Forensic Realism (2017) and Violent Women and Sensation Fiction (2007). He is editor of Literature and Medicine in the Nineteenth Century (2020) and The Cambridge Companion to Sensation Fiction (2013). He has also co-edited, with Daniel Lea, The Male Body in Medicine and Literature (2018) and, with Greta Depledge, The Female Body in Medicine and Literature (2011).

The book has a substantial introduction with many references that show Mangham's wide interests and competences. It clarifies the key concept at hand, which is corporeal materialism, a biology-based approach that dissected and refuted conservative Malthusian ideas.

• Introduction 1: Starvation Science and Political Economy 2: Charles Kingsley 'The Symbolism and Dignity of Matter' 3: Elizabeth Gaskell: 'Clemming' Charles Dickens: 'Nothink and Starwation' Conclusion

Andrew Mangham is Professor of Victorian Literature and Medical Humanities at the University of Reading. His books on the intersection between medicine and literature include Dickens's Forensic Realism (2017) and Violent Women and Sensation Fiction (2007). He is editor of Literature and Medicine in the Nineteenth Century (2020) and The Cambridge Companion to Sensation Fiction (2013). He has also co-edited, with Daniel Lea, The Male Body in Medicine and Literature (2018) and, with Greta Depledge, The Female Body in Medicine and Literature (2011).

The book has a substantial introduction with many references that show Mangham's wide interests and competences. It clarifies the key concept at hand, which is corporeal materialism, a biology-based approach that dissected and refuted conservative Malthusian ideas.

• Introduction 1: Starvation Science and Political Economy 2: Charles Kingsley 'The Symbolism and Dignity of Matter' 3: Elizabeth Gaskell: 'Clemming' Charles Dickens: 'Nothink and Starwation' Conclusion