Doug Battersby
Biographic Data
| ID | 1484312 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Doug Battersby |
| GIVEN NAMES | Doug |
| FAMILY NAME | Battersby |
| SIGNATURE | BATTERSBY D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of York |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9819-3012 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Sensation Fiction, Sexual Health, and Medical Prose
This essay examines how cultural anxieties about the impact of novels on mental and physical health sparked by the sensation novel permeated late Victorian medical discourse, focusing on the prominent physician and novelist, John Milner Fothergill (1841-1888). I argue, firstly, that the articulation of these anxieties in medical writing was shaped by contemporary attitudes towards women and the working class, and secondly, that, despite his expli…
Who in This World Knows Anything of Any Other Heart?’
The Good Soldier (1915) is a novel famously preoccupied by disorders of the heart, whether real, invented, or misdiagnosed. This essay examines Ford Madox Ford's magnum opus in light of his own experiences of medical treatment (including in the spa town of Nauheim where the novel is set), showing just how directly it reflects contemporary innovations in the diagnosis and treatment of heart disease. These innovations were a result of the advent of…
The mental rimmed the sensuous
Vladimir Nabokov’s writing is widely recognised for its intensely philosophical and poetical character, yet how these two qualities relate to one another remains a vexed question. The most compelling critical responses to this issue are those of Brian Boyd and Martin Hägglund, who have offered conflicting interpretations of Ada or Ardor, arguably Nabokov’s most challenging and moving work of fiction. This essay begins by examining a recent publis…
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The mental rimmed the sensuous
Vladimir Nabokov’s writing is widely recognised for its intensely philosophical and poetical character, yet how these two qualities relate to one another remains a vexed question. The most compelling critical responses to this issue are those of Brian Boyd and Martin Hägglund, who have offered conflicting interpretations of Ada or Ardor, arguably Nabokov’s most challenging and moving work of fiction. This essay begins by examining a recent publis…
Sensation Fiction, Sexual Health, and Medical Prose
This essay examines how cultural anxieties about the impact of novels on mental and physical health sparked by the sensation novel permeated late Victorian medical discourse, focusing on the prominent physician and novelist, John Milner Fothergill (1841-1888). I argue, firstly, that the articulation of these anxieties in medical writing was shaped by contemporary attitudes towards women and the working class, and secondly, that, despite his expli…
Who in This World Knows Anything of Any Other Heart?’
The Good Soldier (1915) is a novel famously preoccupied by disorders of the heart, whether real, invented, or misdiagnosed. This essay examines Ford Madox Ford's magnum opus in light of his own experiences of medical treatment (including in the spa town of Nauheim where the novel is set), showing just how directly it reflects contemporary innovations in the diagnosis and treatment of heart disease. These innovations were a result of the advent of…
Aesthetics (3 works) · Art (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Historical Psychiatry and Medical Practices (2 works) · Medicine (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Appropriation (1 work)