Louise Benson James
Biographic Data
| ID | 7519253 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Louise Benson James |
| GIVEN NAMES | Louise Benson |
| FAMILY NAME | James |
| SIGNATURE | JAMES L B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ghent University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2294-8962 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Digestive systems in Radclyffe Hall’s Adam’s Breed (1926)
Radclyffe Hall’s prize-winning, now largely forgotten 1926 novel Adam’s Breed is organised around the processes of eating, digestion, and indigestion. Depicting a community of shopkeepers and restauranteurs in the Italian expat community of London’s Soho, it focuses on a waiter who, witnessing a post-WW1 frenzy of hedonistic dining and consuming, becomes disgusted with food and human appetites, eventually retreating from society to become a hermi…
Medicine, Crime and Realism in Ouida’s ‘Toxin’ (1895)
In 1895, Ouida published a short story called ‘Toxin’ in the Illustrated London News which prompted an outraged response from the British medical establishment. In their words, this tale of an English surgeon who decides to murder his patient depicts ‘the search after scientific truth as naturally leading to crime’. The British Medical Journal considered Ouida’s story ‘an attack [...] on the medical profession’. This article analyses the story an…
Magazines, Meat, and Animal Encounters
What an autopsy I’ll make, with everything all which ways in my bowels!’
Notes1 While the discovery of gut microflora can be traced back to the 1840s, and their significance was beginning to be widely understood in the early twentieth century, it was not until 2012 that the Human Microbiome Project discovered that our own cells are outnumbered by colonies of bacteria living in the body (Farr-Maduell 1)
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What an autopsy I’ll make, with everything all which ways in my bowels!’
Notes1 While the discovery of gut microflora can be traced back to the 1840s, and their significance was beginning to be widely understood in the early twentieth century, it was not until 2012 that the Human Microbiome Project discovered that our own cells are outnumbered by colonies of bacteria living in the body (Farr-Maduell 1)
Digestive systems in Radclyffe Hall’s Adam’s Breed (1926)
Radclyffe Hall’s prize-winning, now largely forgotten 1926 novel Adam’s Breed is organised around the processes of eating, digestion, and indigestion. Depicting a community of shopkeepers and restauranteurs in the Italian expat community of London’s Soho, it focuses on a waiter who, witnessing a post-WW1 frenzy of hedonistic dining and consuming, becomes disgusted with food and human appetites, eventually retreating from society to become a hermi…
Medicine, Crime and Realism in Ouida’s ‘Toxin’ (1895)
In 1895, Ouida published a short story called ‘Toxin’ in the Illustrated London News which prompted an outraged response from the British medical establishment. In their words, this tale of an English surgeon who decides to murder his patient depicts ‘the search after scientific truth as naturally leading to crime’. The British Medical Journal considered Ouida’s story ‘an attack [...] on the medical profession’. This article analyses the story an…
Magazines, Meat, and Animal Encounters
Art (2 works) · Biographical and Historical Analysis (2 works) · Biology (2 works) · History (2 works) · Animal science (1 work) · Archaeology (1 work) · Art history (1 work) · Autopsy (1 work) · Breed (1 work) · Classics (1 work)