Dickens’s Forensic Realism:Truth, Bodies, Evidence
- Submitting institution
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The University of Reading
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 52262
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Ohio State University Press
- ISBN
- 9780814213247
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2017
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This 270pp. book considers the ways intellectual movements generated by the emergent and evolving fields of medical study reflect, and are reflected in, nineteenth literary experiments with form which impact Dickens's realism. It presents detailed research into Victorian legal cases and history, alongside work with nineteenth-century medical and scientific sources, in order to provide an expanded context to think about Dickens's creative production and journalism. The book's new research demonstrates how practitioners, thinkers, and artists considered the analysis of medical detail as yielding meaning and 'truth' differently to previous 'realistic' accounts.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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