Locating Intersections of Medicine and Mobility in 19th-Century Britain

Sandra Dinter (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg) & Sarah Schäfer-Althaus (Universität Koblenz-Landau)
“Locating Intersections of Medicine and Mobility in 19^th-Century Britain”

Sally Shuttleworth (University of Oxford)
“The Siren Call of the Mediterranean: Medical Climatology and Travel for Health, 1860-1900”

 

Matthew Ingleby (Queen Mary University of London)
“Sea Sicknesses, London–Margate c. 1815”

 

Charlotte Mathieson (University of Surrey)
“Sunburnt at Sea: Developing Understandings of Sunburn and Tanning in Nineteenth-Century Maritime Medicine”

Andrew Mangham (University of Reading)
“Monstrosities: Mobility and Development in the Early Nineteenth Century”

 

Stefanie John (Technische Universität Braunschweig)
“A Feverish Restlessness: Decadence, Disease and Mobility in Late Victorian Poetry”

Ariane de Waal (Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg)
“Exposure, Contamination, and ‘Peculiar Feelings’: The Travelling Skin of Victorian Horsewomen and Railway Passengers”

 

Monika Class (Johannes-Gutenberg Universität Mainz)
“Feminine Comportment, Motility and Spatiality in George Eliot’s Mill on the Floss (1860)”

Markku Hokkanen (Oulun Yliopisto)
“From Heroic Exploration to Careful Control: Mobility, Health and Medicine in the British African Empire”

 

Monika Pietrzak-Franger (Universität Wien)
“Travelling Objects: Commodity Culture and Victorian Geographies of Health”

Kim Price (University of Liverpool)
“Convicts on the Move: Spaces of Pain, Experimentation and Cure in Nineteenth-Century British Prison Medicine”

 

Heidi Liedke (Queen Mary University of London)
“(Mental) Health and Travel: Mary Shelley and George Gissing Crossing Borders”

Pamela Gilbert (University of Florida)
“Watering Holes: Changes of Scene, Healthy Waters and Moral Dangers in the 19^th Century”

 

Ursula Kluwick (Universität Bern)
“Moving Matter: Disease as Mobility in Victorian Literature”