Chapter 1 Introduction: Testing the Boundaries of Being in the Long Nineteenth Century

Chapter 2 Drunkenness, Compulsion, and the Disintegration of the Self: Erasmus Darwin’s Theory of Ebrietas in the Writings of Maria Edgeworth

Chapter 3 Intersex Boundaries: Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Hermaphroditic Bodies

Chapter 4 The Catheter Life: a Social History of Ageing, Risk, and Surgical Innovation in Britain’s Long Nineteenth Century

Chapter 6 “Thy paleness makes me glad”: Death, Sympathy, and the Body in Keats’s Isabella

Chapter 7 Poe In Extremis

Chapter 8 “[T]o Feel Powers at Work in the Common Air Unfelt by Others”: Receptivity and the Vanishing Body in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture

Chapter 9 Grasping Spiritualists and Besotted Scientists: The Female Medium’s Body as Battleground

Chapter 10 Consequential Madness: Gender and Power in Romantic-Period Madhouse Literature

Chapter 11 Wandering Attention: Victorian Daydreaming, Disembodiment, and the Boundaries of Consciousness