Science, Medicine, and Aristocratic Lineage in Victorian Popular Fiction

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 Siecle Medieval Revival.- Conclusion.

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• Estudos literários: c 1800 a c 1900
• Cultura popular
• Itens de ficção e relacionados
• Estudos cultirais
• História da Ciência
• História inglesa e irlandesa

Literature, Science and Medicine Studies;Literature and Class;celebrity studies;popular fiction;Gothic Fiction;nobility;aristocracy;British and Irish Literature