Convalescence and Invalidism in Victorian Britain
Volume II: The Opportunities of Invalidism
Gebonden Engels 2026 1e druk 9781032771489Samenvatting
While convalescence connoted a temporary experience of recuperation after a serious illness, invalidism was pictured as an ongoing—and perhaps endless—experience of ill-health. Invalids, then, were those whose conditions appeared to derive no benefit from scientific medicine’s interventions. Yet nineteenth-century invalidism was not so dire a condition as this definition seems to imply. The assumption of chronicity meant that invalids were freed from what sociology has termed “the sick role,” the set of obligations assigned to medical patients (the most significant of which, in Western cultures, is to try to get better). This volume explores the paradoxical freedom provided by invalidism in the nineteenth century. Under the surety of this label, middle-class invalids travelled the world, ailing soldiers insisted upon returning home, working-class sufferers abstained from strenuous work, and lay patients developed and advertised their own health regimens. Perhaps most counter-intuitively, invalidism created space for educated women to forsake household duties and take on the roles of professional writers and public intellectuals.
Freed from the scrutiny of the medical gaze, invalids were able to create distinct subcultures and communities. By highlighting not just the afflictions, but also the opportunities, of chronic ill-health in nineteenth-century sources, this volume reveals that the iconic Victorian invalid is not the isolated shut-in we so often imagine, but a dynamic figure immersed in—and contributing to—contemporary debates about health, climate, industrialization, city planning and globalization.
Specificaties
Lezersrecensies
Inhoudsopgave
Series Editor Introduction
Acknowledgments
Introductory Essay for Volume II: ‘The Opportunities of Invalidism’
Part 1: Travel and the Invalid
1. H. Matthews, The Diary of an Invalid: Being the Journal of a Tour in Pursuit of Health in Portugal, Italy, Switzerland and France in the Years 1817, 1818 and 1819, (London: John Murray, 1820).
2. J. A. Symonds, ‘Davos in Winter’, Fortnightly Review, 30:139 (July 1878), pp. 74–87.
3. R. L. Stevenson, ‘Health and Mountains’, first published in Pall Mall Gazette (17 Feb. 1881), reprinted in Essays of Travel (London: Chatto and Windus, 1905), pp. 212–216.
4. R. L. Stevenson, ‘The Elements of Discord: Foreign’, A Footnote to History: Eight Years of Trouble in Samoa (London: Cassell and Company, 1892).
5. G. MacDonald, ‘An Invalid’s Winter in Algeria’, Good Words 5 (1864), pp. 793–99.
6. ‘A Voyage to Australia for Health’, Macmillan’s Magazine 49 (1884), pp. 412–18.
7. H. Blake, ‘Try the Bahamas’, Fortnightly Review 39 (Feb 1886), pp. 174–83.
Part 2: The Working Invalid
8. H. Martineau, ‘Fifth Period: To The Age of Forty-Three’ and ‘Tynemouth From the Sickroom Window,’ in M. W. Chapman (ed.), Autobiography, 3 vols (Boston: James R. Osgood and Co, 1877), vol 1, pp. 439–49, 456–60, 472–82.
9. F. Nightingale, ‘Notes on the Aboriginal Races of Australia’, Annual Meeting of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science (York, September 1864) (London: N.P., 1865)
10. F. Nightingale, ‘Our Indian Stewardship’, The Nineteenth Century, 14:78 (August 1883), pp. 329–338.
11. C. Darwin, Autobiography of Charles Darwin, 1809–1882. With Original Omissions Restored, ed. Nora Barlow (London: Collins, 1958), pp. 96–116. (Reproduced with permission from John van Wyhe, ed. 2002, The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online, at http://darwin-online.org.uk/
Part 3. Fringe Medicines and Invalid Expertise
12. H. Martineau, Letters on Mesmerism, 2nd edn (London: Edward Moxon, 1845).
13. T. M. Greenhow, Medical Report of the Case of Miss H— M— (London: Samuel Highley, 1845).
14. T. M. Greenhow, ‘Termination of the Case of Miss Harriet Martineau.’ The British Medical Journal, vol. 1, no. 850, 1877, pp. 449–50.
15. E. Bulwer-Lytton, ‘Confessions and Observations of a Water Patient’, New Monthly Magazine, 75 (September 1845), pp. 1–16.
16. R Lane, Life at the Water Cure, Or A Month at Malvern: A Diary (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longman, 1846).
17. Confessions of a Hypochondriac: Or, the Adventures of a Hypochondriac in Search of Health. By M.R.C.S. (London: Saunders and Otley, 1849), pp. 45-61, 269-310
18. ‘By Her Majesty's Letters Patent: Comfort for Invalids’, in The Lancet General Advertiser (22 March 1856).
19. ‘Ayer's Sarsaparilla: Purifies the Blood, Stimulates the Vital Functions, Restores and Preserves Health, and Infuses New Life and Vigor throughout the Whole System’, (Lowell, Mass.: Dr. J.C. Ayer & Co [1880–89?])
20. ‘All in Search of Health Should Wear Harness' Electropathic Belts: Scientifically Constructed for New Life and Vigor’, (London: Electropathic & Zander Institute, [1890?])
Part 4: The Inner Life of the Invalid
21. H. Martineau, ‘Temper’, in Life in the Sickroom: Essays by an Invalid. (London: Edward Moxon, 1844), pp. 126–145.
22. [F. Townsend], Mutterings and Musings of an Invalid (New York: John S. Taylor, 1851), pp. 9-29.
23. A. B. Ward, ‘The Invalid’s World’, Scribner’s Magazine, 5 (Jan. 1889), pp. 58–73.
Bibliography
Index
Rubrieken
- advisering
- algemeen management
- coaching en trainen
- communicatie en media
- economie
- financieel management
- inkoop en logistiek
- internet en social media
- it-management / ict
- juridisch
- leiderschap
- marketing
- mens en maatschappij
- non-profit
- ondernemen
- organisatiekunde
- personal finance
- personeelsmanagement
- persoonlijke effectiviteit
- projectmanagement
- psychologie
- reclame en verkoop
- strategisch management
- verandermanagement
- werk en loopbaan