Progress and Pathology

Melissa Dickson is a Lecturer in Victorian Literature at the University of Birmingham, and was formerly a Postdoctoral researcher on the Diseases of Modern Life project at St Anne’s College, OxfordEmilie Taylor-Brown is a Postdoctoral Researcher on the Diseases of Modern Life project at St Anne’s College, OxfordSally Shuttleworth is Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford

• Introduction – Melissa Dickson, Emilie Taylor-Brown, and Sally ShuttleworthPart I: Constructing the modern self1 Revolutionary shocks: the French human sciences and the crafting of modern subjectivity, 1794–1816 – Laurens Schlicht2 Medical negligence in nineteenth-century Germany – Torsten Riotte3 Imperfect bodies: the ‘pathology’ of childhood in late nineteenth-century London – Steven Taylor4 Phrenology as neurodiversity: the Fowlers and modern brain disorder – Kristine SwensonPart II: Paradoxes of modern living5 A disease-free world: the hygienic utopia in Jules Verne, Camille Flammarion, and William Morris – Manon Mathias6 ‘Drooping with the century’: fatigue and the fin de siècle – Steffan Blayney 7 ‘A rebellion of the cells’: cancer, modernity, and decline in fin-de-siècle Britain – Agnes Arnold-Forster8 The curse and the gift of modernity in late nineteenth-century suicide discourse in Finland – Mikko MyllykangasPart III: Negotiating global modernities 9 From physiograms to cosmograms: Daktar Binodbihari Ray Kabiraj and the metaphorics of the nineteenth-century Ayurvedic body – Projit Bihari Mukharji10 From Schenectady to Shanghai: Dr Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale People and the hybrid pathways of Chinese modernity – Alice Tsay11 Poisonous arrows and unsound minds: hysterical tetanus in the Victorian South Pacific – Daniel SimpsonPart IV: Reflections and provocation12 What is your complaint? Health as moral economy in the long nineteenth century – Christopher Hamlin BibliographyIndex