Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
1 Introduction: Testing the Boundaries of Being in the Long Nineteenth CenturyPart I The Limits of Life
2 Drunkenness, Compulsion, and the Disintegration of the Self: Erasmus Darwin's Theory of Ebrietas in the Writings of Maria Edgeworth3 Intersex Boundaries: Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Hermaphroditic Bodies4 The Catheter Life: a Social History of Ageing, Risk, and Surgical Innovation in Britain's Long Nineteenth CenturyPart II Death's Embrace
5 He Does Not Suffer Now: Death and Citizenship in the National Tale 6 "Thy paleness makes me glad" Death, Sympathy, and the Body in Keats's Isabella 7 Poe In Extremis Part III The Veil of Consciousness 8 " T]o Feel Powers at Work in the Common Air Unfelt by Others" Receptivity and the Vanishing Body in Nineteenth-CenturyLiterature and Culture 9 Grasping Spiritualists and Besotted Scientists: The Female Medium's Body as Battleground 10 Consequential Madness: Gender and Power in Romantic-Period Madhouse Literature 11 Wandering Attention: Victorian Daydreaming, Disembodiment, and the Boundaries of Consciousness