Victorian Britain witnessed a resurgence of traditional convalescent caregiving. In the face of a hectic modern existence, nineteenth-century thinkers argued th

Macabre tales of death and mourning in Victorian America.

'This book is one of the most impressive critical analyses of nineteenth-century literary culture that I have read in a long time. A closely written and argued

British Victorians were obsessed with fluids—with their scarcity and with their omnipresence. By the mid-nineteenth century, hundreds of thousands of citizens