Possible Topics / Further Reading
History of Anatomy
Primary texts:
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft. Frankenstein: The 1818 Text, Contexts, Criticism. Ed. Hunter, J. Paul. 2nd ed. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2012. Print.
Dickens, Charles. Bleak House.
Secondary texts:
Bynum, William
2008 History of Medicine: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: OUP, 2008; Oxford: Oxford University Press. Pp. 27–33.
French, Roger
1993 The Anatomical Tradition. In Companion Encyclopaedia of the History of Medicine. William Bynum and Roy Porter, eds. Pp. 81–101. London: Routledge.
Berkowitz, Carin
2013 Systems of Display: The Making of Anatomical Knowledge in Enlightenment Britain. The British Journal for the History of Science 46(03): 359–387.
Buklijas, Tatjana
2008 Cultures of Death and Politics of Corpse Supply. Bulletin of the History of Medicine 82(3): 570–607.
Lindemann, Mary
2010 Medicine and Society in Early Modern Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Mitchell, Piers D, Ceridwen Boston, Andrew T Chamberlain, et al.
2011 The Study of Anatomy in England from 1700 to the Early 20th Century. Journal of Anatomy 219(2): 91–99.
Park, Katharine
1994 The Criminal and the Saintly Body: Autopsy and Dissection in Renaissance Italy. Renaissance Quarterly 47(1): 1–33.
Richardson, Ruth
2006 Human Dissection and Organ Donation: A Historical and Social Background. Mortality 11(2): 151–165.
2001 Death, Dissection and the Destitute. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 10-25.
Rousseau, George S.
2004 (1975) Nerves, Spirits and Fibres: Toward the Origins of Sensibility, in Nervous Acts. Essays on Literature, Culture and Sensibility. George S. Rousseau, ed. Pp. 157–184. Basingstoke: Palgrave McMillan.
North, Julian
2010 Shelley Revitalized. Biography and the Reanimated Body. European Romantic Review 21(6): 751–770.
The Professionalization of Medicine
Primary text:
Non-fiction: Burney, Frances
1975 A Mastectomy: Letter to Esther Burney. In The Journals and Letters of Fanny Burney (Madame D’Arblay), Volume VI, France 1803–1812. Joyce Hemlow, ed. Pp. 596–616. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
Fiction: Charlotte Brontë. Jane Eyre or Villette
Secondary text:
Foucault, Michel
2003 The Birth of the Clinic. An Archaeology of Medical Perception. London: Routledge. Pp. 152–182.
Doyle, Julie
2008 The Spectre of the Scalpel: The Historical Role of Surgery and Anatomy in Conceptions of Embodiment. Body & Society 14(1): 9–30.
Shuttleworth, Sally. Charlotte Brontë and Victorian Psychology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Print.
Houses of Parliament
1832. Anatomy Act (http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/1832/en/act/pub/0075/print.html, accessed 14 July 2021).
Cherryson, Annia
2010 In the Pursuit of Knowledge: Dissection, Post-Mortem Surgery and the Retention of Body Parts in 18th- and 19th-Century Britain. In Body Parts and Bodies Whole. Changing Relations and Meanings. Katharina Rebay-Salisbury, Marie L.S. Sørensen, and Jessica Hughes, eds. Pp. 135–148. Oxford: Oxbow.
Hurren, Elizabeth T.
2004 A Pauper Dead-House: The Expansion of the Cambridge Anatomical Teaching School under the Late-Victorian Poor Law, 1870–1914. Medical History 48(1): 69–94.
Resurrection Men and Body Snatchers
Primary text:
Charles Dickens. The Tale of Two Cities
Ian Rankin. 2001 The Falls
Non-fiction: The Case of Burke and Hare (Edinburgh)
Secondary text:
Bailey, James Blake
1896 The Diary of a Resurrectionist, 1811-1812, to Which Are Added an Account of the Resurrection Men in London and a Short History of the Passing of the Anatomy Act. London: S. Sonnenschein. http://archive.org/details/diaryofresurrect00bail, accessed 14 July 2021.
Fowler, Louise, and Natasha Powers
2012 Doctors, Dissection and Resurrection Men : Excavations in the 19th-Century Burial Ground of the London Hospital, 2006. MOLA Monograph, 62. London: Museum of London Archaeology.
Richardson, Ruth
2015 Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Body Snatcher. The Lancet 385(9966): 412–413.
Highet, Megan J.
2005 Body Snatching & Grave Robbing: Bodies for Science. History and Anthropology 16(4): 415–440.
Anatomy, Sexuality and Race
Secondary text:
Fausto-Sterling, Anne
2001 Gender, Race and Nation: The Comparative Anatomy of “Hottentot” Women in Europe. In The Gender and Science Reader. Muriel Lederman and Ingrid Bartsch, eds. Pp. 19–48. London: Routledge.
Gilman, Sander L.
1985 Difference and Pathology. Stereotypes of Sexuality, Race and Madness. New York: Cornell University Press. Chapter 3.
Turnbull, Paul
1991 Science, National Identity and Aboriginal Body Snatching in Nineteenth Century Australia. Working Papers in Australian Studies 65: 1–15.
Curvier 1815 Hottentot Venus
Harrison, S.J.
2008 Skulls and Scientific Collecting in the Victorian Military: Keeping the Enemy Dead in British Frontier Warfare. Comp. Stud. Soc. Hist. 50, 285–303.
Popular Attitudes Toward Corpses
Ariès, Philippe
1975 Western Attitudes toward Death: From the Middle Ages to the Present. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. Pp. 55–82.
Frisby, Helen
2014 Drawing the Pillow, Laying out and Port Wine: The Moral Economy of Death, Dying and Bereavement in England, c.1840–1930. Mortality: 1–25.
O’Neill, Robert D.
2006 “Frankenstein to Futurism”: Representations of Organ Donation and Transplantation in Popular Culture. Transplantation Reviews 20(4): 222–230.
Rugg, Julie
1999 From Reason to Regulation: 1760-1850. In Death in England: An Illustrated History. Peter C. Jupp and Clare Gittings, eds. Pp. 202–229. Manchester: Manchester University Press. (here: pp. 221–227)
Tarlow, Sarah
2001 The Aesthetic Corpse in Nineteenth-Century Britain. In Thinking through the Body: Archaeologies of Corporeality. Yannis Hamilakis, Mark Pluciennik, and Sarah Tarlow, eds. Pp. 85–98. New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers.
Scheintod: Premature burial and the fear of being buried alive
Primary text:
Poe, Edgar A.
1844 The Premature Burial. The Philadelphia Dollar Newspaper.
Winslow, Jacobus Benignus, and Jean J. D’Ablaincourt
1748 The Uncertainty of the Signs of Death, and the Danger of Precipitate Interments and Dissection. Dublin: George Faulkner. – Choose one example of premature burial/apparent death from his book (compare list of cases in introduction).
Secondary text:
Dossey, Larry
2007 The Undead: Botched Burials, Safety Coffins, and the Fear of the Grave. EXPLORE: The Journal of Science and Healing 3(4): 347–354.
Rüve, Gerlind
2012 Focusing on the Exception to the Rule for a Time: On the Border Between Life and Death in a Case of Scheintod in 1833. Nuncius 27(2): 371–392.
Tebb, William, and Edward Perry Vollum
1896 Premature Burial and How It May Be Prevented : With Special Reference to Trance, Catalepsy, and Other Forms of Suspended Animation. London: Swan Sonnenschein & Co. http://archive.org/details/prematureburialh00tebb, accessed 14 July, 2021.
Undead
Primary text:
Bram Stoker.
1897 Dracula
The penny blood, Varney the Vampyre, https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/varney-an-early-vampire-story
Secondary text:
Martin, Daniel
2012 “Some Trick of the Moonlight”: Seduction and the Moving Image in Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Victorian Literature and Culture 40: 523–547.
Incorruptibility of the Dead
De Ceglia, Francesco Paolo, and Irina Podgorny
2012 Introduction. Immortal Bodies. Nuncius 27(2): 234–240.
Deutsch, Helen
1999 Doctor Johnson’s Autopsy, or Anecdotal Immortality. The Eighteenth Century 40(2): 113–127.
Knoblauch, Hubert
2012 The Decline of Clinical Dissections and the Culture of Death. Nuncius 27(2): 393–410.
Ruby, Jay
1995 Secure the Shadow: Death and Photography in America. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press.
Emotionalization of Death / Cemetaryscapes
The 18th and 19th century saw the increasing emotionalization of death both in literature and material culture, for instance iconography and language used on grave monuments and in novels.
Primary text:
Charles Dickens. The Old Curiosity Shop or Bleak House
Non-fiction: Walker, George Alfred
1839 Gatherings from Grave Yards: Particularly Those of London: With a Concise History of the Modes of Interment Among Different Nations, from the Earliest Periods. And a Detail of Dangerous and Fatal Results Produced by the Unwise and Revolting Custom of Inhuming the Dead in the Midst of the Living. London: Messrs. Longman.
Secondary text:
Tarlow, Sarah
2002 Wormie Clay and Blessed Sleep: Death and Disgust in Later Historic Britain. In The Familiar Past? Archaeologies of Later Historical Britain. Sarah Tarlow and Susie West, eds. Pp. 183–198. London: Routledge.
John Mullan Deathbed scenes in fiction
http://www.bl.uk/romantics-and-victorians/articles/deathbed-scenes-in-fiction
Brown, Tim
2013 The Making of Urban “healtheries”: The Transformation of Cemeteries and Burial Grounds in Late-Victorian East London. Journal of Historical Geography 42(100): 12–23.
Curl, James Stevens
1972 The Victorian Celebration of Death. Detroit: The Patridge Press.
1983 John Claudius Loudon and the Garden Cemetery Movement. Garden History 11(2): 133–156.
Herman, Agatha
2010 Death Has a Touch of Class: Society and Space in Brookwood Cemetery, 1853–1903. Journal of Historical Geography 36(3). Feature: Counterfactual Historical Geographies: 305–314.
Mytum, Harold
2002 Welsh Cultural Identity in Nineteenth-Century Pembrokeshire: The Pedimented Headstone as a Graveyard Monument. In The Familiar Past?: Archaeologies of Later Historical Britain. Sarah Tarlow and Susie West, eds. Pp. 214–230. London: Routledge.
Rugg, Julie
1999 From Reason to Regulation: 1760-1850. In Death in England: An Illustrated History. Peter C. Jupp and Clare Gittings, eds. Pp. 202–229. Manchester: Manchester University Press.
2000 Defining the Place of Burial: What Makes a Cemetery a Cemetery? Mortality 5(3): 259–274.
Sensory Hierarchies
Primary Texts:
Charles Dickens’s Novels
Secondary Texts:
Gilbert, Pamela. “The Will to Touch: David Copperfield’s Hand.” 19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century 19 (2014): 1-16. Print.
Tilley, Heather. “The Sentimental Touch: Dickens’s Old Curiosity Shop and the Feeling Reader.” Journal of Victorian Culture 16.2 (2011): 226-41. Print.
Tilley, Heather. Blindness and Writing: From Wordsworth to Gissing. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Print.Jay, Martin. Downcast Eyes: The Denigration of Vision in Twentieth-Century French Thought. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993. Print.
Intersection of Race and Sexuality
Primary text:
J. M. Coetzee, Foe 1986 (Bartman)
Secondary text:
Crenshaw, Kimberle. “Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex.” The University of Chicago Legal Forum 40 (1989): 139-67. Print.
Disch, Lisa Jane, and M. E. Hawkesworth, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Feminist Theory. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. Print.
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