Male Body in Medicine and Literature

Andrew Mangham is Associate Professor in Victorian Literature and Culture at the University of Reading, author of Dickens’s Forensic Realism: Truth, Bodies, Evidence (Ohio State University Press, 2017) and Violent Women and Sensation Fiction: Crime, Medicine and Victorian Popular Culture (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007), editor of The Cambridge Companion to Sensation Fiction (Cambridge University Press, 2013) and co-editor of The Female Body in Medicine and Literature (Liverpool University Press, 2011).Daniel Lea is Professor of Contemporary Literature at Oxford Brookes University. He is the author of George Orwell: Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four (Palgrave Macmillan, 2001), Graham Swift (Manchester University Press, 2005) and Twenty-First Century Fiction: Contemporary British Voices (Manchester University Press, 2016), and co-editor of Posting the Male: Masculinities in Post-War and Contemporary Writing (Brill, 2003).

• Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors 1. Introduction Andrew Mangham and Daniel LeaENQUIRY AND EXPERIMENTATION 2. The Poetics of Anatomy: John Donne’s Dissection of the Male Body - Jamie McKinstry 3. The Black Male Body in Early African American Science Fiction: The Experimental Case of Sutton Griggs’s Imperium in Imperio - Marlene D. Allen 4. Miserrimus Dexter: Monstrous Forms of the Fin de Siècle - Katherine Angell 5. ‘Intellectual suicides’: The Man of Letters in Middlemarch - Christine Crockett SharpWOUNDED AND PSYCHOPATHOLOGIZED BODIES 6. The Male Wound in Fin de Siècle Poetry - Sarah Parker 7. The Cacophony of Disaster: The Metaphorical Body of Sound in Don DeLillo’s Falling Man - Inbar Kaminsky 8. ‘Human nature is remorseless’ : Masculinity, Medical Science and Nervous Conditions in Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway - Avishek Parui 9. ‘A man must make himself’: Hypochondria in Maria Edgeworth’s Ennui - Robin RuniaFEAR, CONFUSION AND CONTAGION 10. ‘Sons of Belial’: Contaminated/Contaminating Victorian Male Bodies - Lesley A. Hall 11. Syphilis and Sociability: The Impolite Bodies of Two Gentlemen, James Boswell (1740-1795) and Sylas Neville (1741-1840) - Leigh Wetherall-Dickson 12. ‘’Tis My Father’s Fault’: Tristram Shandy and Paternal Imagination - Jenifer Buckley 13. Southern Gothic and the Queer Male Body - Thomas Lawrence LongIndex

'He offers an account of the influence of dissection on Donne’s poetry [...and] McKinstry builds gracefully on earlier studies, emphasizing how Donne uses dissection to confirm integrities beyond the reach of exposure.' Joseph Loewenstein, Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 (SEL)