‘To Preserve the Skin in Health’: Drainage, Bodily Control and the Visual Definition of Healthy Skin 1835–1900

Hennepe, Mieneke te

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“…The skin was increasingly imagined as a mediating surface, providing drainage for the body but also vulnerable to attack from external sources. 61 This sense of the skin as a porous barrier could be seen in dermatologist Erasmus Wilson's 1845 book Healthy Skin, a volume for the lay reader that emphasised the importance of personal hygiene. Wilson was a prolific writer on dermatology, penning a series for The Lancet in 1850 on the cutaneous manifestations of syphilis within which he emphasised the various affections of the skin that syphilis could not only give rise to, but also imitate.…”

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Wallis

2017

Investigating the Body in the Victorian Asylum

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In this chapter Wallis discusses how late-Victorian asylum doctors investigated and treated skin conditions, and what they believed these told them about the impact of mental disease on the body. Against a background of the growth of dermatology in the nineteenth century, this chapter reveals how disorders of the skin could affect asylum patients’ subjective experiences of the world, as well as exploring the place of practices such as surgery and phototherapy in the asylum. In addition, ‘Skin’ considers the role of medical photography in the nineteenth century asylum—of photographs as important items for teaching and sharing information about mental disease—including contemporary and present-day concerns about the ethics of photographing asylum patients.

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2017

Investigating the Body in the Victorian Asylum

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“…Allen Raine tries to make a similar observation, erroneously claiming that, "fortunately for the colliers" who are covered from head to toe in coal dust, "it [coal dust] is not unwholesome, or their lives would be seriously endangered by the clogging of their skin". 39 Clean skin was a significant concern for the Victorians, 40 but inhalation was the real health issue; "by the 1860s it was accepted that miners suffered from a distinctive respiratory disease caused by inhaling coal dust", although it would be many decades before "miner's lung" was properly recognized. 41 In addition to the incidental medical discourse in A Welsh Heroine, two of Saunderson's central characters are "disabled".…”

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Welsh Women’s Industrial Fiction 1880–1910

Bohata¹,

Jones²

2020

Women’s Writing From Wales Before 1914

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From the beginning of the genre, women writers have made a major contribution to the development of industrial writing. Although prevented from gaining first-hand experience of the coalface, Welsh women writers were amongst the first to try to fictionalize those heavy industries-coal and metal in the south, and slate in the north-which dominated the lives of the majority of the late nineteenth-century Welsh population. Treatment of industrial matter is generally fragmentary in this early women's writing; industrial imagery and metaphor may be used in novels that are not primarily "about" industry at all. Yet from c. 1880-1910, Welsh women writers made a significant-and hitherto critically neglected-attempt to make sense in literature of contemporary industrial Wales in powerful and innovative ways. This essay maps their contribution and considers anglophone Welsh women writers' adaptations and innovations of form (particularly romance) as they try to find a way of representing industrial landscapes, communities and the daily realities of industrial labour. It identifies the genesis in women's writing of tropes that would become central to later industrial fiction, including depictions of industrial accident, injury, death and disability. And it explores the representation of social relations (class, gender, ethnicity, sexuality) and conflict on this tumultuous, dangerous new stage. Women writers have been central to the development of the industrial novel, as with Elizabeth Gaskell's Mary Barton (1848) and North and South (1855), and George Eliot's Felix Holt (1866). But the heavy industry that dominated in Wales-coal, iron, steel and quarrying-is notable for its absence in the early canonical novels by women (and men). 1 These industries were arguably less accessible to women writers with the necessary education and leisure to write than the factories which formed the basis of much of the early industrial fiction. There is a corresponding neglect in critical studies: in Susan Zlotnick's Women, Writing and the Industrial Revolution, mining is mentioned just once, in passing relation to Felix Holt, and there is a similar dearth in relation to women writers in earlier studies by Martha Vicinus and Catherine

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Welsh Women's Industrial Fiction 1880–1910

Bohata

Jones

2016

Women's Writing

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From the beginning of the genre, women writers have made a major contribution to the development of industrial writing. Although prevented from gaining first-hand experience of the coalface, Welsh women writers were amongst the first to try to fictionalize those heavy industries-coal and metal in the south, and slate in the north-which dominated the lives of the majority of the late nineteenth-century Welsh population. Treatment of industrial matter is generally fragmentary in this early women's writing; industrial imagery and metaphor may be used in novels that are not primarily "about" industry at all. Yet from c. 1880-1910, Welsh women writers made a significant-and hitherto critically neglected-attempt to make sense in literature of contemporary industrial Wales in powerful and innovative ways. This essay maps their contribution and considers anglophone Welsh women writers' adaptations and innovations of form (particularly romance) as they try to find a way of representing industrial landscapes, communities and the daily realities of industrial labour. It identifies the genesis in women's writing of tropes that would become central to later industrial fiction, including depictions of industrial accident, injury, death and disability. And it explores the representation of social relations (class, gender, ethnicity, sexuality) and conflict on this tumultuous, dangerous new stage.Women writers have been central to the development of the industrial novel, as with Elizabeth Gaskell's Mary Barton (1848) and North and South (1855), and George Eliot's Felix Holt (1866). But the heavy industry that dominated in Wales-coal, iron, steel and quarrying-is notable for its absence in the early canonical novels by women (and men).1 These industries were arguably less accessible to women writers with the necessary education and leisure to write than the factories which formed the basis of much of the early industrial fiction. There is a corresponding neglect in critical studies: in Susan Zlotnick's Women, Writing and the Industrial Revolution, mining is mentioned just once, in passing relation to Felix Holt, and there is a similar dearth in relation to women writers in earlier studies by Martha Vicinus and Catherine

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‘To Preserve the Skin in Health’: Drainage, Bodily Control and the Visual Definition of Healthy Skin 1835–1900

Cited by 11 publications

References 15 publications

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Welsh Women’s Industrial Fiction 1880–1910

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