Kirstie Blair is a lecturer in the Department of English Literature in the University of Glasgow, and has previously taught at Keble College and St Peter's College, Oxford. Her primary research interests lie in Victorian literature, particularly poetry and poetic form, literature and medicine, and literature and religion. She has published a number of journal articles in these fields and has edited a collection of essays on John Keble, John Keble in Context (Anthem, 2004). She is also a contributor to The Oxford Handbook of English Literature and Theology and the Blackwell Companion to Literature and the Bible (forthcoming). Dr Blair is an Associate Editor of The Year's Work in English Studies, and has contributed the chapter on Victorian poetry since 2002.

...stimulating and enjoyable book...

• 1. Proved on the Pulses: Heart Disease in Victorian Literature and Culture ; 2. Shocks and Spasms: Rhythm and the Pulse of Verse ; 3. 'Ill-lodged in a woman's breast': Elizabeth Barrett Browning and the Woman's Heart ; 4. 'The old unquiet breast': Matthew Arnold, Heartsickness, and the Culture of Doubt ; 5. 'Raving of dead men's dust and beating hearts': Tennyson and the Pathological Heart

Kirstie Blair is a lecturer in the Department of English Literature in the University of Glasgow, and has previously taught at Keble College and St Peter's College, Oxford. Her primary research interests lie in Victorian literature, particularly poetry and poetic form, literature and medicine, and literature and religion. She has published a number of journal articles in these fields and has edited a collection of essays on John Keble, John Keble in Context (Anthem, 2004). She is also a contributor to The Oxford Handbook of English Literature and Theology and the Blackwell Companion to Literature and the Bible (forthcoming). Dr Blair is an Associate Editor of The Year's Work in English Studies, and has contributed the chapter on Victorian poetry since 2002.

...stimulating and enjoyable book...

• 1. Proved on the Pulses: Heart Disease in Victorian Literature and Culture ; 2. Shocks and Spasms: Rhythm and the Pulse of Verse ; 3. 'Ill-lodged in a woman's breast': Elizabeth Barrett Browning and the Woman's Heart ; 4. 'The old unquiet breast': Matthew Arnold, Heartsickness, and the Culture of Doubt ; 5. 'Raving of dead men's dust and beating hearts': Tennyson and the Pathological Heart

Kirstie Blair is a lecturer in the Department of English Literature in the University of Glasgow, and has previously taught at Keble College and St Peter's College, Oxford. Her primary research interests lie in Victorian literature, particularly poetry and poetic form, literature and medicine, and literature and religion. She has published a number of journal articles in these fields and has edited a collection of essays on John Keble, John Keble in Context (Anthem, 2004). She is also a contributor to The Oxford Handbook of English Literature and Theology and the Blackwell Companion to Literature and the Bible (forthcoming). Dr Blair is an Associate Editor of The Year's Work in English Studies, and has contributed the chapter on Victorian poetry since 2002.

...stimulating and enjoyable book...

• 1. Proved on the Pulses: Heart Disease in Victorian Literature and Culture ; 2. Shocks and Spasms: Rhythm and the Pulse of Verse ; 3. 'Ill-lodged in a woman's breast': Elizabeth Barrett Browning and the Woman's Heart ; 4. 'The old unquiet breast': Matthew Arnold, Heartsickness, and the Culture of Doubt ; 5. 'Raving of dead men's dust and beating hearts': Tennyson and the Pathological Heart