Issue #49
(February 2008)

Interdisciplinarity and the Body (Guest-editor: Pamela K. Gilbert)

Articles

Pamela K. Gilbert

Introduction

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Timothy Alborn

Normal Bodies, Normal Prices: Interdisciplinarity in Victorian Life Insurance

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Peter Melville Logan

Imitations of Insanity and Victorian Medical Aesthetics

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Gavin Budge

“Art’s Neurosis”: Medicine, Mass Culture and the Romantic Artist in William Hazlitt

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Susan Zieger

Victorian Hallucinogens

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Meegan Kennedy

Diagnosis or Detour? The Uses of Medical Realism in the Victorian Novel

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Reviews

Tim Fulford

Daniel O’Quinn. Staging Governance: Theatrical Imperialism in London, 1770-1800. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005. ISBN: 9780801879616. Price: US$60

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Kevin Hutchings

Timothy Morton. Ecology without Nature: Rethinking Environmental Aesthetics. Cambridge, MA, and London: Harvard University Press, 2007. ISBN: 9780674024342. Price: US$49.95

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David M. Baulch

Robert Mitchell. Sympathy and the State in the Romantic Era: Systems, State Finance, and the Shadows of Futurity. New York and London: Routledge, 2007. ISBN: 9780415771429. Price: US$135

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Neil Forsyth

Luisa Calé. Fuseli’s Milton Gallery; ‘Turning readers into Spectators’. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2006. ISBN: 9780199267383. Price: US$99

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Brian Cooper

Catherine Gallagher. The Body Economic: Life, Death, and Sensation in Political Economy and the Victorian Novel. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2006. ISBN: 0691123586. Price: US$32.95

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Gail Marshall

Kirsten Pullen. Actresses and Whores: On Stage and in Society. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. ISBN: 521833418. Price: US$64/£43

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Tabitha Sparks

Sondra M. Archimedes. Gendered Pathologies: The Female Body and Biomedical Discourse in the Nineteenth-Century Novel. New York: Routledge, 2005. ISBN: 9780415975261. Price: US$79

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Rachel Teukolsky

Colette Colligan. The Traffic in Obscenity from Byron to Beardsley: Sexuality and Exoticism in Nineteenth-Century Print Culture. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. ISBN: 9780230003439. Price: US$74.95

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Joss Marsh

Mervyn Heard. Phantasmagoria: The Secret Life of the Magic Lantern. Hastings: The Projection Box, 2006. ISBN: 9781903000120. Price: US$75

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Daniel Siegel

Amanda Claybaugh. The Novel of Purpose: Literature and Social Reform in the Anglo-American World. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 2007. ISBN: 9780801444807. Price: US$45

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Martin Danahay

Oliver S. Buckton, Cruising with Robert Louis Stevenson: Travel, Narrative and the Colonial Body. Athens: Ohio: Ohio University Press, 2007 ISBN: 0821417568. Price: US$44.95

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Dan Bivona

Bruce Robbins. Upward Mobility and the Common Good: Toward a Literary History of the Welfare State. Princeton: Princeton UP, 2007. ISBN: 9780691049878. Price: US$35

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