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Health spectacle in American popular literature, 1790-1870
Stewart, Victoria Lane
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https://hdl.handle.net/2142/132564
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- Title
- Health spectacle in American popular literature, 1790-1870
- Author(s)
- Stewart, Victoria Lane
- Issue Date
- 2025-12-03
- Director of Research (if dissertation) or Advisor (if thesis)
- Murison, Justine S
- Doctoral Committee Chair(s)
- Murison, Justine S
- Committee Member(s)
- Littlefield, Melissa M
- Hilger, Stephanie M
- Jones, Jamie L
- Department of Study
- English
- Discipline
- English
- Degree Granting Institution
- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
- Degree Name
- Ph.D.
- Degree Level
- Dissertation
- Keyword(s)
- eighteenth century American literature
- nineteenth century American literature
- health history
- popular American literature
- Charles Brockden Brown
- George Lippard
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Silas Weir Mitchell
- Abstract
- This project takes up health spectacle, which I identify as a prevailing concept for late eighteenth and nineteenth century American health history, first beginning in the 1790s and concluding in the 1860s and 70s. Through a study of popular literature of the period and other circulating medical thought in journals and newspapers, I investigate how instances of health spectacle shaped the development of professionalized health and medicine. Ultimately, I argue that reading for health spectacle in popular literature reveals a prevailing tension between medical expertise and medical democratization of knowledge in the United States.
- Graduation Semester
- 2025-12
- Type of Resource
- Thesis
- Handle URL
- https://hdl.handle.net/2142/132564
- Copyright and License Information
- Copyright 2025 Victoria Stewart
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