LEADER 03475oam 2200541 450 001 9910743699903321 005 20231030173906.0 010 $a3-031-41141-2 024 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 $a20230916d2023 uy 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 /$fAbigail Boucher 205 $a1st ed. 2023. 210 1$aCham, Switzerland :$cPalgrave Macmillan,$d[2023] 210 4$d©2023 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 $aScience, Medicine, and Aristocratic Lineage in Victorian Popular Fiction explores the dialogue between popular literature and medical and scientific discourse in terms of how they represent the highly visible an pathologized British aristocratic body. This books explores and complicates the two major portrayals of aristocrats in nineteenth-century literature: that of the medicalised, frail, debauched, and diseased aristocrat, and that of the heroic, active, beautiful ?noble?, both of which are frequent and resonant in popular fiction of the long nineteenth century. Abigail Boucher argues that the concept of class in the long nineteenth century implicitly includes notions of blood, lineage, and bodily ?correctness?, and that ?class? was therefore frequently portrayed as an empirical, scientific, and medical certainty. Due to their elevated and highly visual social positions, both historical and fictional aristocrats were frequently pathologized in the public mind and watched for signs of physical excellence or deviance. Using popular fiction, Boucher establishes patterns across decades, genres, and demographics and considers how these patterns react to, normalise, or feed into the advent of new scientific and medical understandings. 410 0$aPalgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine,$x2634-6443 606 $aAristocracy (Social class) in literature 606 $aMedicine in literature 606 $aScience in literature 606 $aEnglish fiction$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 615 0$aAristocracy (Social class) in literature. 615 0$aMedicine in literature. 615 0$aScience in literature. 615 0$aEnglish fiction$xHistory and criticism. 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