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From 16th, Oxford Events will launch on a new website: events.ox.ac.uk, and event submissions will resume. You will need a Halo login to submit events. Full details are available on the Staff Gateway.
You are invited to celebrate the launch of Anxious Times: Medicine and Modernity in Nineteenth-Century Britain (Science & Culture in the Nineteenth Century).
About the authors:
Amelia Bonea is a research fellow at the Centre for Transcultural Studies, University of Heidelberg.
Melissa Dickson is a lecturer in Victorian literature at the University of Birmingham.
Sally Shuttleworth is professor of English literature at the University of Oxford.
Jennifer Wallis is a teaching fellow in medical humanities at Imperial College London.
Anxious Times explores perceptions of the pressures of modern life and their impact on bodily and mental health in nineteenth-century Britain. Drawing on both specialist and popular material, the authors consider anxieties surrounding the potentially detrimental impact of new technologies, changing work and leisure practices, and evolving cultural pressures and expectations. Explorations of these concerns range from developments in occupational and public health to fictional speculations as to what lies ahead for human beings once they become, literally, a bundle of nerves. Read more here diseasesofmodernlife.org
Short talks will begin at 18:00.
