How Long to Read Science, Medicine, and Aristocratic Lineage in Victorian Popular Fiction

How Long Does it Take to Read Science, Medicine, and Aristocratic Lineage in Victorian Popular Fiction?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 1 minute to read Science, Medicine, and Aristocratic Lineage in Victorian Popular Fiction by Abigail Boucher

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Description

Science, Medicine, and Lineage in Popular Fiction of the Long Nineteenth Century explores the dialogue between popular literature and medical and scientific discourse in terms of how they represent the highly visible an pathologized British aristocratic body. This books explores and complicates the two major portrayals of aristocrats in nineteenth-century literature: that of the medicalised, frail, debauched, and diseased aristocrat, and that of the heroic, active, beautiful ‘noble’, both of which are frequent and resonant in popular fiction of the long nineteenth century. Abigail Boucher argues that the concept of class in the long nineteenth century implicitly includes notions of blood, lineage, and bodily ‘correctness’, and that ‘class’ was therefore frequently portrayed as an empirical, scientific, and medical certainty. Due to their elevated and highly visual social positions, both historical and fictional aristocrats were frequently pathologized in the public mind and watched for signs of physical excellence or deviance. Using popular fiction, Boucher establishes patterns across decades, genres, and demographics and considers how these patterns react to, normalise, or feed into the advent of new scientific and medical understandings.

How long is Science, Medicine, and Aristocratic Lineage in Victorian Popular Fiction?

Science, Medicine, and Aristocratic Lineage in Victorian Popular Fiction by Abigail Boucher is 241 pages long, and a total of 60,491 words.

This makes it 81% the length of the average book. It also has 74% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Science, Medicine, and Aristocratic Lineage in Victorian Popular Fiction Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 30 minutes to read Science, Medicine, and Aristocratic Lineage in Victorian Popular Fiction aloud.

What Reading Level is Science, Medicine, and Aristocratic Lineage in Victorian Popular Fiction?

Science, Medicine, and Aristocratic Lineage in Victorian Popular Fiction is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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