The Science of Starving in Victorian Literature, Medicine and Political Economy
- Submitting institution
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The University of Reading
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 89824
- Type
- A - Authored book
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- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- ISBN
- 9780198850038
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2020
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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
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- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This 240 page monograph deploys detailed original research into Victorian historical thought and social debate around the medical sciences, in order to re-examine the rhetoric of starvation across a range of problem fictions. The result of 5 years’ research, the book considers both literary and journalistic writing by its authors, and presents detailed reading in a broad scope of Victorian medical and general scientific sources. It brings together literary realism and contemporary cultural, sociological, and scientific thought so as to present historically-informed understandings of its range of authors and literary texts.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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