The male body in medicine and literature / edited by Andrew Mangham and Daniel Lea.

Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2018.

xii, 247 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

pt. One Enquiry and Experimentation -- 1. The Poetics of Anatomy: John Donne's Dissection of the Male Body / Jamie McKinstry -- 2. The Black Male Body in Early African American Science Fiction: The Experimental Case of Sutton Griggs's Imperium in Imperio / Marlene D. Allen -- 3. Miserrimus Dexter: Monstrous Forms of the Fin de Siecle / Katherine Angell -- 4. 'Intellectual suicides': Tire Man of Letters in Middlemarch / Christine Crockett Sharp -- pt. Two Wounded and Psychopathologised Bodies -- 5. The Male Wound in Fin de Siecle Poetry / Sarah Parker -- 6. The Cacophony of Disaster: The Metaphorical Body of Sound in Don DeLillo's Falling Man / Inbar Kaminsky -- 7. 'Human Nature is Remorseless': Masculinity, Medical Science and Nervous Conditions in Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway / Avishek Parui -- 8. 'A man must make himself: Hypochondria in Maria Edgeworth's Ennui / Robin Runia -- pt. Three Fear, Confusion and Contagion

9. 'Sons of Belial': Contaminated/Contaminating Victorian Male Bodies / Lesley A. Hall -- 10. Syphilis and Sociability: The Impolite Bodies of Two Gentlemen, James Boswell (1740 -- 1795) and Sylas Neville (1741 -- 1840) / Leigh Wetherall-Dickson -- 11. ''Tis My Father's Fault': Tristram Shandy and Paternal Imagination / Jenifer Buckley -- 12. Southern Gothic and the Queer Male Body / Thomas Lawrence Long.

Includes bibliographical references and index.