LEADER 04008nam 22007335 450 001 9910743699903321 005 20251008145139.0 010 $a9783031411410 010 $a3031411412 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-031-41141-0 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC30726120 035 $a(CKB)28131293200041 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL30726120 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-031-41141-0 035 $a(EXLCZ)9928131293200041 100 $a20230831d2023 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aScience, Medicine, and Aristocratic Lineage in Victorian Popular Fiction /$fby Abigail Boucher 205 $a1st ed. 2023. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2023. 215 $a1 online resource (x, 237 pages.) 225 1 $aPalgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine,$x2634-6443 300 $aIncludes index. 311 0 $a9783031411403 327 $aIntroduction -- 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. 330 $aScience, Medicine, and Aristocratic Lineage in Victorian Popular Fiction explores the dialogue between popular literature and medical and scientific discourse in terms of how they represent the highly visible an pathologized British aristocratic body. This books explores and complicates the two major portrayals of aristocrats in nineteenth-century literature: that of the medicalised, frail, debauched, and diseased aristocrat, and that of the heroic, active, beautiful ?noble?, both of which are frequent and resonant in popular fiction of the long nineteenth century. Abigail Boucher argues that the concept of class in the long nineteenth century implicitly includes notions of blood, lineage, and bodily ?correctness?, and that ?class? was therefore frequently portrayed as an empirical, scientific, and medical certainty. Due to their elevated and highly visual social positions, both historical and fictional aristocrats were frequently pathologized in the public mind and watchedfor signs of physical excellence or deviance. Using popular fiction, Boucher establishes patterns across decades, genres, and demographics and considers how these patterns react to, normalise, or feed into the advent of new scientific and medical understandings. 410 0$aPalgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine,$x2634-6443 606 $aLiterature, Modern$y19th century 606 $aFiction 606 $aMedicine and the humanities 606 $aScience$xHistory 606 $aCelebrities 606 $aGreat Britain$xHistory 606 $aNineteenth-Century Literature 606 $aFiction Literature 606 $aMedical Humanities 606 $aHistory of Science 606 $aCelebrity Studies 606 $aHistory of Britain and Ireland 615 0$aLiterature, Modern 615 0$aFiction. 615 0$aMedicine and the humanities. 615 0$aScience$xHistory. 615 0$aCelebrities. 615 0$aGreat Britain$xHistory. 615 14$aNineteenth-Century Literature. 615 24$aFiction Literature. 615 24$aMedical Humanities. 615 24$aHistory of Science. 615 24$aCelebrity Studies. 615 24$aHistory of Britain and Ireland. 676 $a060 700 $aBoucher$b Abigail$01426852 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910743699903321 996 $aScience, Medicine, and Aristocratic Lineage in Victorian Popular Fiction$93559207 997 $aUNINA