Titlebook: Life, Death, and Consciousness in the Long Nineteenth Century; Lucy Cogan,Michelle O‘Connell Book 2022 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and T

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Book 2022enth century through to the first decade of the twentieth century—an era that has been called the ‘Age of Science’—the essays collected here consider the cultural ripple effects of those previously unimaginable revolutions in science and medicine on humanity’s understanding of being..

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Intersex Boundaries: Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Hermaphroditic Bodiesexamines the medical treatises that sought to “normalise” these “monstrous” bodies. My larger aim is to highlight historical intersex cases and demonstrate how they symbolised the socio-scientific reimagining of bodily boundaries, helping us question, resituate, and reconfigure our current culture’s boundaries and margins.

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He Does Not Suffer Now: Death and Citizenship in the National Talen, Germaine de Staël, and Maria Edgeworth, the National Tale offers citizenship only to those willing to surrender to the power of the sovereign, and marks as alien those lives deemed “unliveable” because of their refusal to submit to the biopolitics of modernity.

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“[T]o Feel Powers at Work in the Common Air Unfelt by Others”: Receptivity and the Vanishing Body inptivity but also exposing the self to a precarious state. As testified by the complex afterlives of John Keats as well as by works by George Eliot and Walter Pater, the interest in the vanishing body appears inseparable from the potentialities that this body holds for Victorian theories of artistic and poetic creation.

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Grasping Spiritualists and Besotted Scientists: The Female Medium’s Body as Battlegroundociated with fictional mediums, helps to highlight the extent to which the perceived health or infirmity of the medium’s body becomes freighted with connotations around desire, “purity,” and self-sovereignty.

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Poe In Extremisretius. Using this theory, Poe provides the most extensive body of work of minds in extremis in the nineteenth century, often literally so. This essay will focus on how atomic theory is refashioned by Poe into a unique contribution to the literature of terror.

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Book 2022t cases” regarding human existence that medicine continuously uncovered as it stretched the boundaries of knowledge. These cases cast troubling and distorted shadows on the culture, throwing into relief the values, vested interests, and power relations regarding the construction of embodied life and