Medicine and Mobility in Nineteenth-Century British Literature, History, and Culture

“The volume is composed of a wonderful range of contributions from scholars across the medical humanities spectrum. … Medicine and Mobility in Nineteenth-Century British Literature, History and Culture provides an essential grounding in what mobility-informed Victorian history and culture can look like. Historians will benefit from engaging with the theoretically informed work of literary scholars whose critical focus on embodiment demonstrates the utility of thinking about movement, bodies and health together.” (Kristin D. Hussey, Journal of British Studies, Vol. 64, 2025)

Sandra Dinter  is Junior Professor of British Literature and Culture at the University of Hamburg, Germany. Her research focuses on representations of mobility, gender, and space in the long nineteenth century.

Sarah Schäfer-Althaus is Lecturer of Anglophone Literature and Culture at the University of Koblenz, Germany. Her research focuses on women, gender, and sexuality studies, body theory, and the history of medicine.