Medical Cosmopolitanism
Middlemarch , Cholera, and the Pathologies of English Masculinity
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12411602 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mary Wilson Carpenter (Queen's University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 38 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 511-528 |
| Publication date | 2010-05-06 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Victorian Literature and Culture (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1060-1503 • E-ISSN: 1470-1553 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s1060150310000148 |
| OpenAlex | W2165741726 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 28 |
In 1831 the first epidemic of what came to be known as “Asiatic cholera” bloomed in Britain. The disease, which in previous centuries had been known only in India, was to appear again in Britain in 1848–49, 1853–54, and 1866–67 as pandemics swept around the globe. But it was cholera's first arrival on the shores of Britain in 1831 that struck terror into British hearts. No one knew what disastrous consequences might ensue from this alien plague. Striking down perfectly healthy people, sometimes as they walked in the streets, it could kill within a few hours. So severe was the rapid dehydration caused by violent diarrhea and vomiting, and accompanied by hideously painful cramps, that victims rapidly became semi-comatose and turned blue-white. The Quarterly Review called it “one of the most terrible pestilences which have ever desolated the earth,” and claimed that it had killed fifty million in fourteen years (Morris 14)
Alien · Ancient history · Cholera · Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19 · Criminology · Disease · Globe · Pandemic · Pathology · Plague (disease · Political science · Politics · Sociology · White (mutation · Caribbean history, culture, and politics · Historical Economic and Social Studies · History · Law · Medicine · Travel Writing and Literature · Virology
Science and the practice of medicine in the nineteenth century
The Powers of Distance
The Epidemic Streets
The Healthy Body and Victorian Culture
The Cholera Years
Colonizing the Body
Romanticism and Colonial Disease
The Cholera Years. The United States in 1832, 1849 and 1866
Middlemarch, Realism and the Birth of the Clinic
Cholera and Nation
Cholera and Nation
Cholera 1832
Cosmopolitanism
Nerves and narratives
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,33 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2021 (5) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |