Science, medicine, and aristocratic lineage in Victorian popular fiction / Abigail Boucher.

Author/creator Boucher, Abigail author.
Format Book
PublicationCham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, an imprint of Springer Nature Switzerland, [2023]
Descriptionx, 237 pages ; 22 cm.
Subjects
English fiction--19th century. --History and criticism.
Literature and science--Great Britain. --History. --19th century.
Literature and medicine--Great Britain. --History. --19th century.
Aristocracy (Social class) in literature.

SeriesPalgrave studies in literature, science and medicine
Palgrave studies in literature, science, and medicine. ^A1273268
Contents Introduction -- Chapter 1: Fashionable Diseases: Consumerism, Class, and Health in the Silver Fork Novels -- Chapter 2: "Unblessed by Offspring": Fertility and the Aristocratic Male in Reynold's The Mysteries of the Court of London -- Chapter 3: Aristocratic Inbreeding: Exogamy and Endogamy in Sensation Fiction -- Chapter 4: Aristocratic Origins, Heredity, and Evolution in the Fin de Siáecle Medieval Revival -- Conclusion.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Issued in other formebook version : 9783031411410
ISBN9783031411403
ISBN3031411404 hardcover
ISBNelectronic book

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