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, Oxford Emilie Taylor-Brown is a Postdoctoral Researcher on the Diseases of Modern Life project at St Anne’s College, Oxford Sally Shuttleworth is Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford -- .

Introduction – Melissa Dickson, Emilie Taylor-Brown, and Sally Shuttleworth

Part I: Constructing the modern self
1 Revolutionary shocks: the French human sciences and the crafting of modern subjectivity, 1794–1816 – Laurens Schlicht
2 Medical negligence in nineteenth-century Germany – Torsten Riotte
3 Imperfect bodies: the ‘pathology’ of childhood in late nineteenth-century London – Steven Taylor
4 Phrenology as neurodiversity: the Fowlers and modern brain disorder – Kristine Swenson

Part II: Paradoxes of modern living
5 A disease-free world: the hygienic utopia in Jules Verne, Camille Flammarion, and William Morris – Manon Mathias
6 ‘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-Forster
8 The curse and the gift of modernity in late nineteenth-century suicide discourse in Finland – Mikko Myllykangas

Part III: Negotiating global modernities
9 From physiograms to cosmograms: Daktar Binodbihari Ray Kabiraj and the metaphorics of the nineteenth-century Ayurvedic body – Projit Bihari Mukharji
10 From Schenectady to Shanghai: Dr Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale People and the hybrid pathways of Chinese modernity – Alice Tsay
11 Poisonous arrows and unsound minds: hysterical tetanus in the Victorian South Pacific – Daniel Simpson

Part IV: Reflections and provocation
12 What is your complaint? Health as moral economy in the long nineteenth century – Christopher Hamlin

Bibliography
Index -- .