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).

• AcknowledgementsNotes on Contributors1. IntroductionAndrew Mangham and Daniel LeaENQUIRY AND EXPERIMENTATION2. The Poetics of Anatomy: John Donne’s Dissection of the Male Body - Jamie McKinstry3. The Black Male Body in Early African American Science Fiction: The Experimental Case of Sutton Griggs’s Imperium in Imperio - Marlene D. Allen4. Miserrimus Dexter: Monstrous Forms of the Fin de Siècle - Katherine Angell5. ‘Intellectual suicides’: The Man of Letters in Middlemarch - Christine Crockett SharpWOUNDED AND PSYCHOPATHOLOGIZED BODIES6. The Male Wound in Fin de Siècle Poetry - Sarah Parker7. The Cacophony of Disaster: The Metaphorical Body of Sound in Don DeLillo’s Falling Man - Inbar Kaminsky8. ‘Human nature is remorseless’ : Masculinity, Medical Science and Nervous Conditions in Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway - Avishek Parui9. ‘A man must make himself’: Hypochondria in Maria Edgeworth’s Ennui - Robin RuniaFEAR, CONFUSION AND CONTAGION10. ‘Sons of Belial’: Contaminated/Contaminating Victorian Male Bodies - Lesley A. Hall11. Syphilis and Sociability: The Impolite Bodies of Two Gentlemen, James Boswell (1740-1795) and Sylas Neville (1741-1840) - Leigh Wetherall-Dickson12. ‘’Tis My Father’s Fault’: Tristram Shandy and Paternal Imagination - Jenifer Buckley13. Southern Gothic and the Queer Male Body - Thomas Lawrence LongIndex

Reviews'This volume will make an original and distinctive contribution to the fields of masculinities, gender studies, history of medicine, disabilities studies, literature, and studies of the body.'Joanne Ella Parsons, Bath Spa University