Science, Medicine, and Aristocratic Lineage in Victorian Popular Fiction. (2023)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Abigail Boucher.
• Authors: Boucher, Abigail
• Contents: Introduction.- 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.
• Publisher Details: Cham : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2023
• Copyright Date: 2023
• Extent: 1 online resource (237 pages)
• Subjects: Literature, Modern--19th century; Fiction -- General; Social Science -- Sociology -- General; Science -- History; Social Science -- Popular Culture; History -- Europe -- Great Britain; Fiction & related items; Cultural studies; History of science; Popular culture; British & Irish history; Fiction; Medicine and the humanities; Science--History; Celebrities; Great Britain--History; Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783031411410
• Related ISBNs: 9783031411403
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.