Issue 9.2 (Summer 2013)
Special Issue:
Writing Bodies: Gender and Medicine in the Nineteenth Century

Guest Edited by Ally Crockford and Lena Wånggren

Introduction

Ally Crockford and Lena Wånggren, “Introduction”

Articles

Helen Williams, “Much Fact and Little Imagination: Female Authorship, Authority and Medicine in Wilkie Collins’s Poor Miss Finch”

Joanne Townsend, “‘Unreliable Observations’: Medical Practitioners and Venereal Disease Patient Narratives in Victorian Britain”

Abigail Boucher, “‘Unblessed by Offspring’: Fertility and the Aristocratic Male in Reynolds’s The Mysteries of the Court of London”

Christine Crockett, “Medical Gothic: Genre and Gender Bending in Charlotte Dacre’s Zofloya”

Julia Fuller, “Redemptive Nursing and the Remarriageable Heroine in The Tenant of Wildfell Hall and Diana of the Crossways”

Reviews

Louise Penner, “Revisiting Tuberculosis in Victorian Literature and Culture.” Review of Katherine Byrne’s Tuberculosis and the Victorian Literary Imagination.

Martha Schoolman, “Alimentary Domesticity.” Review of Kyla Wazana Tompkins’s Racial Indigestion: Eating Bodies in the Nineteenth Century.

Travis M. Foster, “Call the Doctor.” Review of Marli F. Weiner and Mazie Hough’s Sex, Sickness, and Slavery: Defining Illness in the Antebellum South.

Laura Doyle, “The Intersectional Convergence of the Atlantic and the Global.” Review of Kevin Hutchings and Julia M. Wright’s Transatlantic Literary Exchanges, 1790-1870: Gender, Race, and Nation.