![]() Turning to the field of forensic medicine (or medical jurisprudence), Mangham uncovers legal and medical contexts for Dickens’s ideas that result in new readings of novels, short stories, and journalism by this major Victorian author. ![]() “ Dickens’s Forensic Realism is a fascinating and innovative book that will make an important and unexpected contribution to both Dickens studies and history of science.” -Holly Furneaux, author of Queer Dickens: Erotics, Families, Masculinitiesĭickens’s Forensic Realism: Truth, Bodies, Evidence by Andrew Mangham is one of the first studies to bring the medical humanities to bear on the work of Dickens. For Victorianists across the fields of English literature, history, history of science, history of law, and medical humanities, and for Dickens scholars in particular, Dickens’s Forensic Realism will be indispensable.” -Marlene Tromp, editor of Victorian Freaks: The Social Context of Freakery in Britain (OSU Press) “This is a beautifully written, pioneering book-one of the first in this new area of forensic criminal studies that focus on literature. ![]()
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