03475oam 2200541 450 991074369990332120231030173906.03-031-41141-210.1007/978-3-031-41141-0(MiAaPQ)EBC30726120(CKB)28131293200041(Au-PeEL)EBL30726120(DE-He213)978-3-031-41141-0(EXLCZ)992813129320004120230916d2023 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierScience, medicine, and aristocratic lineage in Victorian popular fiction /Abigail Boucher1st ed. 2023.Cham, Switzerland :Palgrave Macmillan,[2023]©20231 online resource (x, 237 pages.)Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine,2634-6443Includes index.9783031411403 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 Reynolds’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 Siècle Medieval Revival -- Conclusion.Science, Medicine, and Aristocratic Lineage in Victorian Popular Fiction explores the dialogue between popular literature and medical and scientific discourse in terms of how they represent the highly visible an pathologized British aristocratic body. This books explores and complicates the two major portrayals of aristocrats in nineteenth-century literature: that of the medicalised, frail, debauched, and diseased aristocrat, and that of the heroic, active, beautiful ‘noble’, both of which are frequent and resonant in popular fiction of the long nineteenth century. Abigail Boucher argues that the concept of class in the long nineteenth century implicitly includes notions of blood, lineage, and bodily ‘correctness’, and that ‘class’ was therefore frequently portrayed as an empirical, scientific, and medical certainty. Due to their elevated and highly visual social positions, both historical and fictional aristocrats were frequently pathologized in the public mind and watched for signs of physical excellence or deviance. Using popular fiction, Boucher establishes patterns across decades, genres, and demographics and considers how these patterns react to, normalise, or feed into the advent of new scientific and medical understandings.Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine,2634-6443Aristocracy (Social class) in literatureMedicine in literatureScience in literatureEnglish fiction19th centuryHistory and criticismAristocracy (Social class) in literature.Medicine in literature.Science in literature.English fictionHistory and criticism.060Boucher Abigail1426852MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910743699903321Science, Medicine, and Aristocratic Lineage in Victorian Popular Fiction3559207UNINA