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Springer International Publishing AG, Cham
Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1: Medicine and Mobility in Nineteenth-Century British Literature, History, and Culture: An Introduction -- Historical Coordinates: Medicine, Mobility, and...
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Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1: Medicine and Mobility in Nineteenth-Century British Literature, History, and Culture: An Introduction -- Historical Coordinates: Medicine, Mobility, and Their Entanglements in Nineteenth-Century Britain -- Theoretical Cornerstones: Mobility Studies and the Medical Humanities -- Dissecting Medicine and Mobility in Nineteenth-Century Britain: The Contributions -- Works Cited -- Part I: Travel and Health -- Chapter 2: Doctors' Ships: Voyages for Health in the Late Nineteenth Century -- The Ocean as a Health Resort -- A Doctor's Narrative: Francis Workman -- Life On-Board the Sobraon: Passenger Narratives -- Ship Newspapers -- The Arrival of the Invalids -- Conclusion: Slow Travel for Health -- Works Cited -- Chapter 3: Watering Holes: Healthy Waters and Moral Dangers in the Nineteenth-Century Novel -- Bathing -- Spas and Seaside Resorts -- The Novel -- Conclusion: Spa Novels and Sedentarism -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Chapter 4: Embodied Interdependencies of Health and Travel in Henry James's The Portrait of a Lady and Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles -- Movements of Travellers and Dancers -- Ailing and Itinerant Bodies as Liminal Spaces of Health -- Maternity, Mobility, and Mortality -- Conclusion: Victorian Heroines' Health and Travel -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Chapter 5: (Mental) Health and Travel: Reflections on the Benefits of Idling in the Victorian Age -- Mary Shelley and (Mental) Health -- Taking a Rest? Dickens and Collins -- Gissing's Brooding -- Conclusion: Resting Minds in Idly Moving Bodies -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Part II: Pathologising Mobilities -- Chapter 6: Upright Posture and Gendered Styles of Body Movements in The Mill on the Floss -- Masculine Variations of Body Movements: Tom's Correct Posture.
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Konferenzhinweis aus dem Vorwort entnommen, dass die ursprüngliche Idee für diesen Band auf der Konferenz "Locating Intersections of Medicine and Mobility in Nineteenth-Century Britain" geboren wurde, die im Oktober 2019 in der historischen Bibliothek der Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) stattfand"