Andrew Mangham - Literature and Medicine: Volume 2: The Nineteenth Century

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Daniel Brown is a professor of English at the University of Southampton, UK. His research is focused on the relations between literature, science, and philosophy in the long nineteenth century. Publications include Hopkins Idealism (Oxford University Press, 1997) and The Poetry of Victorian Scientists: Style, Science and Nonsense (Cambridge University Press, 2013). He is currently completing a monograph on poetry and the place of women in Victorian science.

Verity Burke is Postdoctoral Research Associate on Beyond Dodos and Dinosaurs: Displaying Extinction and Recovery in Museums, an interdisciplinary project based at the University of Stavanger, Norway. Her work on this project examines narratives of near-extinction prevented by human intervention, and their presentation in UK natural history museums. Her wider research interests include the history of medicine, nineteenth-century jurisprudence, taxidermy, and all things museum.

Melissa Dickson is a lecturer in Victorian Literature at the University of Birmingham. She has a PhD from Kings College, London, and an MPhil, BA, and University Medal from the University of Queensland, Australia. She is the author of Cultural Encounters with the Arabian Nights in Nineteenth-Century Britain (Edinburgh University Press, 2019) and co-author of Anxious Times: Medicine and Modernity in the Nineteenth Century (Pittsburgh University Press, 2019).

Pamela K. Gilbert is Albert Brick Professor of English at the University of Florida. She has published widely in the areas of Victorian literature, cultural studies, and the history of medicine. Her most recent book is Victorian Skin: Surface, Self, History (Cornell University Press 2019). Her other books are Disease, Desire and the Body in Victorian Womens Popular Novels (Cambridge University Press, 1997), Mapping the Victorian Social Body (State University of New York Press, 2004), The Citizens Body (Ohio State University Press, 2007), and Cholera and Nation (State University of New York Press, 2008). She edited Imagined Londons (State University of New York Press, 2002), a teaching and scholarly edition of Rhoda Broughtons novel Cometh up as a Flower (Broadview Press, 2010), and the Companion to Sensation Fiction (Blackwell, 2011). She co-edited Beyond Sensation: Mary Elizabeth Braddon in Context (State University of New York Press, 1999) and was a co-associate editor of the Blackwell Encyclopedia of Victorian Literature (2015).

Narin Hassan is Associate Professor in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication at Georgia Tech. Her research and teaching interests include Victorian literature and culture, postcolonial and gender studies, women writers, and the history of medicine. Her book Diagnosing Empire: Women, Medical Knowledge, and Colonial Mobility (Ashgate, 2011) focuses upon Victorian women travellers and their engagement with colonial medicine. Her current research examines the yoga, health, and shifting conceptions of the mind, body, and spirituality in relation to British colonialism. She has published essays in Nineteenth-Century Contexts, WSQ, Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies, Mosaic, and a number of book collections.

Meegan Kennedy is Associate Professor of English/History and Philosophy of Science at Florida State University. Her research interests include Victorian literature and culture, the British novel, Victorian science and medicine, periodical studies, and the history of technology. Her book Revising the Clinic: Vision and Representation in Victorian Medicine and the Novel (Ohio State University Press, 2010) examines nineteenth-century strategies for observing and recording the body. She is currently working on an NEH-funded project about Victorians fearful romance with the microscope.

Andrew Mangham is Professor of Victorian Literature and Medical Humanities at the University of Reading. He is a director of the Centre for Health Humanities at Reading. His research concentrates on the intersections between medicine and literature in the nineteenth century. He is the author of Violent Women and Sensation Fiction (Palgrave, 2007), Dickenss Forensic Realism (Ohio State University Press, 2016), and The Science of Starving (Oxford University Press, 2020). He has also edited The Female Body in Medicine and Literature (Liverpool University Press, 2011), The Male Body in Medicine and Literature (Liverpool University Press, 2018), and The Cambridge Companion to Sensation Fiction (Cambridge University Press, 2013).