Spring 2019: Victorian Maladies: Disease, Illness, Disability
Travis Lau - University of Texas at Austin
Goal: consider shared medical and literary rhetorics and networks to trace how these domains interacted with one another in Victorian culture.
Wilkie Collins: Poor Miss Finch
Harriet Martineau: Life in the Sick Room
Robert Louis Stevenson: Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Siebers: Disability Theory
Wells: “The Country of the Blind”
Esmail & Keep: “Victorian Disability”
Charles Dickens: A Christmas Carol
Shapiro: “Tiny Tims, Super Crips, and the End of Pity”
Young: “I’m Not Your Inspiration”
Garland-Thompson: “Disability, Identity, and Representation: An Introduction”
Mitchel & Snyder: “Narrative Prosthesis and the Materiality of Metaphor”
Bailin: The Sickroom in Victorian Fiction
Frawley: Invalidism and Identity in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Ablow: “Harriet Martineau and the Impersonality of Pain”
Daudet: In the Land of Pain
Craik: “The Little Prince and his Travelling Cloak”
Davis: “Disability, Normality, and Power”
Craton: “Physical Difference in the Nineteenth Century”
Durbahc: Spectacle of Deformity
Garland-Thompson: “The Cultural Work of American Freak Shows, 1835-1940″
St. Pierre: “The Construction of the Disabled Speaker: Locating Stuttering in Disability Studies”
Tupper: “The Stammerer’s Complaint”
Dickens: “Doctor Marigold”
Lane: “Construction of Deafness”
Beuler: “The Lisping Lover”
Shakespeare: “The Social Model of Disability”
Flint: “Disability and difference”
Holmes: “My Old Delightful Sensation: Wilkie Collins and the Disabling of Melodrama”
Choi: At Risk: Statistical Participation and the Victorian City”
Ewald: “Two Infinities of Risk”
Mayhew: London Labour and the London Poor
Poovey: “Anatomical Realism and Social Investigation in Early Nineteenth-Century Manchester”
Gilbert: Mapping the Victorian Social Body, Cholera and Nation, & The Citizen’s Body
Dickens: “The Black Veil”
Lawrence: Medicine in the Making of Modern Britain, 1700-1920
Reid: Robert Louis Stevenson, Science, and the Fin-de-Siècle
Lombroso: Criminal Man According to the Classification of Cesare Lombroso
Burdett: “Post Darwin: Social Darwinism, Degeneration, Eugenics”
Stiles: “Robert Louis Stevenson’s Jekyll and Hyde and the Double Brain”
Comitini: “The Strange Case of Addiction in Robert Louis Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde”
Sontag: Illness as Metaphor
Kennedy: “Victorian Medicine and the Novel”
Law: “Ever-Widening Circulations: Dracula and the Fear of Management”
Durbach: “Vampires, Vivisectors, and the Victorian Body”
Wald: “The Healthy Carrier: ‘Typhoid Mary’ and Social Being”
Scandura: “Deadly Professions: Dracula, Undertakers, and the Embalmed Corpse”
Willis: “The Invisible Giant, Dracula, and Disease”
McCrea: “Heterosexual Horror: Dracula, The Closet, and the Marriage-Plot”
Vrettos: “Physical Immunity and Racial Destiny: Stoker and Haggard”
Otis: Membranes: Metaphors of Invasion in Nineteenth-Century Literature, Science, and Politics
Cardon-Coyne: Reconstructing the Body
Virginia Woolf: On Being Ill
Mairs: “On Being a Cripple”
