Medicine and Mobility in Nineteenth-Century British Literature, History, and Culture

Chapter 1 Medicine and Mobility in Nineteenth-Century British Literature, History, and Culture: An Introduction

Chapter 2 Doctors’ Ships: Voyages for Health in the Late Nineteenth Century

Chapter 3 Watering Holes: Healthy Waters and Moral Dangers in the Nineteenth-Century Novel

Chapter 4 Embodied Interdependencies of Health and Travel in Henry James’s The Portrait of a Lady and Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the d’Urbervilles

Chapter 5 (Mental) Health and Travel: Reflections on the Benefits of Idling in the Victorian Age

Chapter 6 Upright Posture and Gendered Styles of Body Movements in The Mill on the Floss

Chapter 7 The Mobility of Water: Aquatic Transformation and Disease in Victorian Literature

Chapter 8 A “Feverish Restlessness”: Dance as Decadent Mobility in Late Victorian Poetry

Chapter 9 The Wandering Irish: Mobility and Lunacy in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Lancashire

Chapter 10 Exposure, Friction, and “Peculiar Feelings”: Mobile Skin in Victorian Medicine and Literature

Chapter 11 White Fluff/Black Pigment: Health Commodity Culture and Victorian Imperial Geographies of Dependence

Chapter 12 From Heroic Exploration to Careful Control: Mobility, Health, and Medicine in the British African Empire