Laurence Τalairach-Vielmas
Biographic Data
| ID | 4448002 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Laurence Τalairach-Vielmas |
| GIVEN NAMES | Laurence |
| FAMILY NAME | Τalairach-Vielmas |
| SIGNATURE | ΤALAIRACH-VIELMAS L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Centre Alexandre Koyré |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9888-1720 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 38 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 37 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Cette science nécessaire. Dissections humaines et formation médicale au Québec
Mary Orr, Sarah Bowdich Lee (1791–1856) and Pioneering Perspectives on Natural History
Natural History
Diana Pérez Edelman, Embryology and the Rise of the Gothic Novel: Cham, Palgrave Macmillan, 2021, 179 pages
Embryology and the Rise of the Gothic Novel est l’un des titres de la collection Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine, qui s’intéresse aux croisements entre littérature, histoire des sciences et de la médecine. Revenant sur les origines du roman gothique, né en Angleterre en 1764 avec la publication du Château d’Otrante, d’Horace Walpole, Edelman propose de relire le genre et son évolution à l’aune des débats de l’époque relevant …
Vaughn Scribner. Merpeople: A Human History
Vaughn Scribner’s Merpeople: A Human History offers a fascinating and richly illustrated chronological survey of merpeople from the medieval period to the present. The book examines the ways in which mermaids and tritons have informed myth, science, religion, and art, and analyses their changing definition, role, and appearance over time. Although some references are made to Asian or West African merpeople in the final chapter, Scribner’s study d…
Natural History
Young Collectors
Wild and Exotic ‘Beasties’ in Early Children’s Literature
Epilogue
Prehistoric ‘Beasties’
Victorian Menageries
Nonsense ‘Beasties’
Hieke Huistra, The Afterlife of the Leiden Anatomical Collections. Hands On, Hands Off: Londres/New York, Routledge, 2019, 173 pages
L’ouvrage de Hieke Huistra, issu d’une thèse de doctorat dirigée par Rina Knoeff et Rob Zwijnenberg, retrace l’histoire des collections anatomiques de Leyde sur plusieurs siècles, examinant notamment leur usage au xixe siècle, au moment où nombre d’entre elles s’institutionnalisent et servent de plus en plus exclusivement à la formation médicale. C’est en effet à Leyde que les collections deviennent institutionnelles pour la première fois en Euro…
Anna Gasperini, Nineteenth Century Popular Fiction, Medicine and Anatomy. The Victorian Penny Blood and the 1832 Anatomy Act: Cham, Palgrave Macmillan, 2019
Parmi les penny dreadfuls les plus emblématiques de la littérature populaire britannique du xixe siècle, Les Mystères de Londres, de G. W. M. Reynolds, Le Collier de perles, de James Malcolm Rymer ou encore Varney le Vampire, du même auteur, font figure de proue. Cette littérature achetée à bas coût et publiée en feuilletons, qui met à l’honneur des monstres en tout genre, de Sweeney Todd, le tueur en série de Fleet Street, aux voleurs de cadavre…
Penser le vivant
Les sciences du vivant ont enrichi massivement les connaissances scientifiques, en particulier dans le domaine de la médecine, avec des découvertes importantes telles que les cellules, les bactéries, les molécules organiques, et plus tard l’ADN. Les savoirs, images, modèles de pensée sur lesquels elles se sont fondées se sont peu à peu étendus à d’autres disciplines. Elles ont également conduit à la formulation de nouvelles interrogations sur le …
Chapter 2 Madwomen and Attics
Knoeff Rina et Zwijnenberg Robert (dir.), The Fate of Anatomical Collections: Farnham, Ashgate, 2015
Publié dans la collection History of Medicine in Context, dirigée par Andrew Cunningham et Ole Peter Grell, l’ouvrage collectif The Fate of Anatomical Collections fait suite à un colloque international organisé à l’Université de Leyde en février 2012 (« Cultures of Anatomical Collections »). Si nombre des outils qui servirent longtemps à la formation médicale ont peu à peu été abandonnés, témoignant du déclin de l’anatomie pratique, ils se trouve…
Ingrid H. Tague, Animal Companions: Pets and Social Change in Eighteenth-Century Britain
Ingrid H. Tague’s Animal Companions: Pets and Social Change in Eighteenth-Century Britain is Animalbus’s fifth volume – a series which includes books such as Rachel Poliquin’s The Breathless Zoo: Taxidermy and the Cultures of Longing (2012), Gorgeous Beasts: Animal Bodies in Historical Perspective (2012), edited by Joan B. Landes, Paula Young Lee and Paul Youngquist, and Animals on Display: The Creaturely in Museums, Zoos and Natural History (201…
Ann C. Colley, Wild Animal Skins in Victorian Britain: Zoos, Collections, Portraits and Maps
From the eighteenth century and throughout the Victorian period wild animals were recurrently exhibited in Britain. Locked up behind bars in zoological gardens or menageries, these exotic animals entertained children and adults from all social classes just as they emblematized the global expansion of the British empire. But the Victorians particularly assigned meanings to the wild skins that were exhibited throughout the country, as Ann C. Colley…
Moulding the Female Body in Victorian Fairy Tales and Sensation Novels
Laurence Talairach-Vielmas explores Victorian representations of femininity in narratives that depart from mainstream realism, from fairy tales by George MacDonald, Lewis Carroll, Christina Rossetti, Juliana Horatia Ewing, and Jean Ingelow, to sensation novels by Wilkie Collins, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Rhoda Broughton, and Charles Dickens. Feminine representation, Talairach-Vielmas argues, is actually presented in a hyper-realistic way in such an…
Modeleurs et modèles anatomiques dans la constitution des musées médicaux en Europe, XVIIIe-XIXe siècle
Depuis le premier essor de la céroplastie anatomique, à partir des premières décennies du XVIIIesiècle, les représentations tridimensionnelles du corps humain et de ses parties – en cire, mais aussi en bois, en terre-cuite, en papier mâché, hybrides ou composites – n’ont cessé de circuler à travers l’Europe, beaucoup plus que toute autre catégorie d’objets susceptibles d’être rangés dans des musées médicaux. Ces artefacts font l’objet d’achats, d…
Sylvia A. Pamboukian, Doctoring the Novel: Medicine and Quackery from Shelley to Doyle
The trend of Victorian studies to focus on the relationships between literature and medicine has been sustained in the last decade, and Pamboukian’s Doctoring the Novel: Medicine and Quackery from Shelley to Doyle is one of the latest examples. Pamboukian explores novels ranging from Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818–1831) to Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Stark Munro Letters (1895) in order to analyse how the selected nineteenth-century writers (Mary …
Takashi Ito, London Zoo and the Victorians, 1828–1859
At the beginning of Wilkie Collins’s Heart and Science (1883), the heroine visits the London Zoological Gardens with her fiancé. But the London zoo is not only a romantic site where young middle-class people flirt. If the young maiden enjoys looking at the birds, the mad scientist of the novel, Dr Benjulia, also roams the Zoological Gardens in search of animals to experiment on. Collins’s description of the London Zoological Gardens as both symbo…
Adelene Buckland, Novel Science: Fiction and the Invention of Nineteenth-Century Geology
Throughout the nineteenth century, geological and paleontological discoveries created many sensations. Increasing evidence of a primeval world unsettled beliefs about the origins of the Earth and of mankind. Rewriting the history of the earth strongly impacted not only scientific knowledge but also the economic and cultural life of the nation, as Adelene Buckland’s Novel Science: Fiction and the Invention of Nineteenth-Century Geology explains. G…
Saverio Tomaiuolo, Victorian Unfinished Novels: The Imperfect Page
The field of literature abounds with unfinished novels which have often inspired later writers to rewrite the story with a closure. Recently, Dan Simmons’s revision of The Mystery of Edwin Drood in Drood (2009) took fans of Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins into the catacombs beneath London, and many neo-Victorian novels are frequently sequels of unfinished Victorian novels. These unfinished novels, however, are seldom examined by literary criti…
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Sensation Fiction: A Peep Behind the Veil
International audience
Voleur de cadavres et cadavres volés dans Frankenstein
Alberti Samuel, Morbid Curiosities: Medical Museums in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Morbid Curiosities: Medical Museums in Nineteenth-Century Britain nous propose un voyage dans l’univers des musées médicaux, à une époque où les spécimens anatomiques circulent des champs de foire aux collections privées en passant par les expositions universelles. C’est dans un monde où l’on expose le corps à tout va, qu’il soit monstrueux, mort ou vivant, où l’on cherche à traquer, identifier et définir la différence, à séparer le normal du pat…
Saverio Tomaiuolo, In Lady Audley’s Shadow: Mary Elizabeth Braddon and Victorian Literary Genres
Saverio Tomaiuolo’s In Lady Audley’s Shadow: Mary Elizabeth Braddon and Victorian Literary Genres is a fairly recent study of the literary career of one of the most renowned Victorian writers of sensation novels. The book opens with the story of Edward Bulwer Lytton’s wife, Rosina Wheeler, who was wrongly incarcerated in a lunatic asylum in 1858. This sensational case inspired many a sensation novel of the 1860s, typifying the way in which the se…
Samuel J. M. Alberti, Morbid Curiosities: Medical Museums in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Samuel Alberti’s Morbid Curiosities: Medical Museums in Nineteenth-Century Britain is a very recently published study which lifts the veil on the construction of medical museums in the nineteenth century. The book throws light on medical museums as part of nineteenth-century cultures of display and the development of a medical marketplace. Indeed, because they exhibited diseased body parts which were also circulated as commodities, medical museum…
Andrew Cunningham, The Anatomist Anatomis’d: An Experimental Discipline in Enlightenment Europe
The Resurrection of the Anatomical Projects of the Ancients (1997), Andrew Cunningham offers us a new study of anatomy, The Anatomist Anatomis'd: An Experimental Discipline in Enlightenment Europe. This time, Cunningham looks at how anatomists contributed to the creation of anatomy as a discipline in the long eighteenth century, the "Enlightenment" being a time when the discipline flourished as never before or since. Thus anatomy, throughout the …
Elizabeth T. Hurren, Dying for Victorian Medicine: English Anatomy and Its Trade in the Dead Poor, c. 1834–1929
Elizabeth T. Hurren’s Dying for Victorian Medicine is an attempt at recovering lost stories—the stories of the poor whose bodies were sold for dissection and almost discarded at the end of the anatomy lesson—and to fill a gap in the history of “anatomy burials” in the context of the New Poor Law. Her book traces the journey that led to the commodification of the corpse, and its use by medical students, as medical education increasingly relied upo…
Anne Stiles, Popular Fiction and Brain Science in the Late Nineteenth Century
Late-Victorian Gothic romances often dealt with allusions and references to neurology, and even featured mad scientists experimenting on patients and turning them into automata they could control like expert puppet-masters. The connections between late-Victorian popular literature and neurological research were, indeed, strong, as Anne Stiles’s Popular Fiction and Brain Science in the Late Nineteenth Century makes explicit. Gothic romances, such …
Carol Anne, Physiologie de la veuve. Une histoire médicale de la guillotine: Seyssel, Champ Vallon, 2012
L’ouvrage d’Anne Carol, Physiologie de la veuve. Une histoire médicale de la guillotine, propose un voyage au cœur de l’histoire de la guillotine, de la Révolution française à la Première Guerre mondiale, examinant tout particulièrement la part jouée par le corps médical, des représentations savantes des mécanismes de la mort à l’utilisation des corps des suppliciés à des fins scientifiques. Comme l’explique l’auteure, si la guillotine résulte du…
Weaving the Threads of the Tapestry: Story-Spinning in Mrs. Molesworth's The Tapestry Room (1879)
This article deals with Mary Louisa Molesworth's The Tapestry Room (1879), and examines the way in which Molesworth rewrites the figure of the storyteller. By contrasting male and female characters, fantasy and reality, Molesworth associates the fairy tale with a feminine tradition, and borrows from folk tales to devise assertive and independent princesses. Her example is an example of Victorian women writers’ attempt at carving out a niche for t…
Extinction and Progress in Charles Kingsley’s Alton Locke (1850)
Charles Kingsley’s Alton Locke (1850), written a decade before the publication of Charles Darwin’s theory of natural selection, emphasizes newly-emerging definitions of nature and modern perceptions of the interrelations between the human social system and the ecosystem. In so doing, the modern conceptions of the natural environment which the novel highlights, shape a utopian model for a more democratic society. As this paper points out, by using…
Sylvia A. Pamboukian, Doctoring the Novel: Medicine and Quackery from Shelley to Doyle
The trend of Victorian studies to focus on the relationships between literature and medicine has been sustained in the last decade, and Pamboukian’s Doctoring the Novel: Medicine and Quackery from Shelley to Doyle is one of the latest examples. Pamboukian explores novels ranging from Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818–1831) to Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Stark Munro Letters (1895) in order to analyse how the selected nineteenth-century writers (Mary …
Takashi Ito, London Zoo and the Victorians, 1828–1859
At the beginning of Wilkie Collins’s Heart and Science (1883), the heroine visits the London Zoological Gardens with her fiancé. But the London zoo is not only a romantic site where young middle-class people flirt. If the young maiden enjoys looking at the birds, the mad scientist of the novel, Dr Benjulia, also roams the Zoological Gardens in search of animals to experiment on. Collins’s description of the London Zoological Gardens as both symbo…
Adelene Buckland, Novel Science: Fiction and the Invention of Nineteenth-Century Geology
Throughout the nineteenth century, geological and paleontological discoveries created many sensations. Increasing evidence of a primeval world unsettled beliefs about the origins of the Earth and of mankind. Rewriting the history of the earth strongly impacted not only scientific knowledge but also the economic and cultural life of the nation, as Adelene Buckland’s Novel Science: Fiction and the Invention of Nineteenth-Century Geology explains. G…
Saverio Tomaiuolo, Victorian Unfinished Novels: The Imperfect Page
The field of literature abounds with unfinished novels which have often inspired later writers to rewrite the story with a closure. Recently, Dan Simmons’s revision of The Mystery of Edwin Drood in Drood (2009) took fans of Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins into the catacombs beneath London, and many neo-Victorian novels are frequently sequels of unfinished Victorian novels. These unfinished novels, however, are seldom examined by literary criti…
Anatomical Models: A History of Disappearance
In her introduction to Ephemeral Bodies: Wax Sculpture and the Human Figure, Roberta Panzanelli presents the history of wax as “a history of disappearance—transformed, softened, liquefied, and sometimes lost forever”. Wax objects are today seldom part of our environment. Apart from some popular museums, such as Tussaud’s, wax models are no longer used, no longer in vogue, and this is most particularly the case for wax anatomical models which used…
Fairy Tales, Natural History and Victorian Culture
Fairy Tales, Natural History and Victorian Culture examines how literary fairy tales were informed by natural historical knowledge in the Victorian period, as well as how popular science books used fa
Modeleurs et modèles anatomiques dans la constitution des musées médicaux en Europe, XVIIIe-XIXe siècle
Depuis le premier essor de la céroplastie anatomique, à partir des premières décennies du XVIIIesiècle, les représentations tridimensionnelles du corps humain et de ses parties – en cire, mais aussi en bois, en terre-cuite, en papier mâché, hybrides ou composites – n’ont cessé de circuler à travers l’Europe, beaucoup plus que toute autre catégorie d’objets susceptibles d’être rangés dans des musées médicaux. Ces artefacts font l’objet d’achats, d…
Chapter 2 Madwomen and Attics
Knoeff Rina et Zwijnenberg Robert (dir.), The Fate of Anatomical Collections: Farnham, Ashgate, 2015
Publié dans la collection History of Medicine in Context, dirigée par Andrew Cunningham et Ole Peter Grell, l’ouvrage collectif The Fate of Anatomical Collections fait suite à un colloque international organisé à l’Université de Leyde en février 2012 (« Cultures of Anatomical Collections »). Si nombre des outils qui servirent longtemps à la formation médicale ont peu à peu été abandonnés, témoignant du déclin de l’anatomie pratique, ils se trouve…
Ingrid H. Tague, Animal Companions: Pets and Social Change in Eighteenth-Century Britain
Ingrid H. Tague’s Animal Companions: Pets and Social Change in Eighteenth-Century Britain is Animalbus’s fifth volume – a series which includes books such as Rachel Poliquin’s The Breathless Zoo: Taxidermy and the Cultures of Longing (2012), Gorgeous Beasts: Animal Bodies in Historical Perspective (2012), edited by Joan B. Landes, Paula Young Lee and Paul Youngquist, and Animals on Display: The Creaturely in Museums, Zoos and Natural History (201…
Ann C. Colley, Wild Animal Skins in Victorian Britain: Zoos, Collections, Portraits and Maps
From the eighteenth century and throughout the Victorian period wild animals were recurrently exhibited in Britain. Locked up behind bars in zoological gardens or menageries, these exotic animals entertained children and adults from all social classes just as they emblematized the global expansion of the British empire. But the Victorians particularly assigned meanings to the wild skins that were exhibited throughout the country, as Ann C. Colley…
Moulding the Female Body in Victorian Fairy Tales and Sensation Novels
Laurence Talairach-Vielmas explores Victorian representations of femininity in narratives that depart from mainstream realism, from fairy tales by George MacDonald, Lewis Carroll, Christina Rossetti, Juliana Horatia Ewing, and Jean Ingelow, to sensation novels by Wilkie Collins, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Rhoda Broughton, and Charles Dickens. Feminine representation, Talairach-Vielmas argues, is actually presented in a hyper-realistic way in such an…
Penser le vivant
Les sciences du vivant ont enrichi massivement les connaissances scientifiques, en particulier dans le domaine de la médecine, avec des découvertes importantes telles que les cellules, les bactéries, les molécules organiques, et plus tard l’ADN. Les savoirs, images, modèles de pensée sur lesquels elles se sont fondées se sont peu à peu étendus à d’autres disciplines. Elles ont également conduit à la formulation de nouvelles interrogations sur le …
Anna Gasperini, Nineteenth Century Popular Fiction, Medicine and Anatomy. The Victorian Penny Blood and the 1832 Anatomy Act: Cham, Palgrave Macmillan, 2019
Parmi les penny dreadfuls les plus emblématiques de la littérature populaire britannique du xixe siècle, Les Mystères de Londres, de G. W. M. Reynolds, Le Collier de perles, de James Malcolm Rymer ou encore Varney le Vampire, du même auteur, font figure de proue. Cette littérature achetée à bas coût et publiée en feuilletons, qui met à l’honneur des monstres en tout genre, de Sweeney Todd, le tueur en série de Fleet Street, aux voleurs de cadavre…
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