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Aristocracy (Social class) in literature. --- Aristocracy in literature

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Science, Medicine, and Aristocratic Lineage in Victorian Popular Fiction explores the dialogue between popular literature and medical and scientific discourse in terms of how they represent the highly visible an pathologized British aristocratic body. This books explores and complicates the two major portrayals of aristocrats in nineteenth-century literature: that of the medicalised, frail, debauched, and diseased aristocrat, and that of the heroic, active, beautiful ‘noble’, both of which are frequent and resonant in popular fiction of the long nineteenth century. Abigail Boucher argues that the concept of class in the long nineteenth century implicitly includes notions of blood, lineage, and bodily ‘correctness’, and that ‘class’ was therefore frequently portrayed as an empirical, scientific, and medical certainty. Due to their elevated and highly visual social positions, both historical and fictional aristocrats were frequently pathologized in the public mind and watched for signs of physical excellence or deviance. Using popular fiction, Boucher establishes patterns across decades, genres, and demographics and considers how these patterns react to, normalise, or feed into the advent of new scientific and medical understandings.

Aristocracy (Social class) in literature. --- English fiction --- History and criticism. --- Aristocracy in literature --- Medicine in literature. --- Science in literature.

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Aristocracy (Social class) in literature --- Families in literature --- Nobility in literature --- Nobility --- Verse satire, Latin --- History and criticism --- Juvenal. --- Rome --- In literature.

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Theatrical science --- anno 1500-1599 --- Great Britain --- 820-2 "15" --- Amateur theater --- -Aristocracy (Social class) in literature --- Nobility --- -Theater --- -Authors and patrons --- -Literary patronage --- Maecenatism --- Patronage of literature --- Sponsorship of literature --- Art patronage --- Literary patrons --- Literature and state --- Dramatics --- Histrionics --- Professional theater --- Stage --- Theatre --- Performing arts --- Acting --- Actors --- Noble class --- Noble families --- Nobles (Social class) --- Peerage --- Upper class --- Aristocracy (Social class) --- Titles of honor and nobility --- Aristocracy in literature --- Amateur plays --- Amateur theatricals --- Nonprofessional theater --- Women in amateur theatricals --- Amusements --- Theater --- Little theater movement --- Engelse literatuur: toneel; drama--?"15" --- History --- -History --- -History and criticism --- -Engelse literatuur: toneel; drama--?"15" --- -820-2 "15" --- Aristocracy (Social class) in literature --- Authors and patrons --- History and criticism

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This study suggests that Chaucer's poetic consciousness was shaped largely by the state formation process and the concomitant transformation of the aristocracy and rise of a class of educated state functionaries, the 'clerks'. Belonging neither to the 'clerks' nor to the courtly aristocracy proper, Chaucer sought to create a realm of pure poetry, a realm that his 'clerky' fellow-poets Gower, Usk, Scogan and Hoccleve were determined to erase even as they celebrated Chaucer as England's principal poet. The struggle between Chaucer and the clerks attempting to appropriate him unfolds not only in contemporary literature but also in the pictorial images of the poet circulating after his death.

Aristocracy (Social class) in literature --- Aristocratie (Classe sociale) dans la littérature --- Aristocratie (Sociale klasse) in de literatuur --- Classes sociales dans la littérature --- Cours et courtisans dans la litterature --- Courts and courtiers in literature --- Hoven en hofhoudingen in de literatuur --- Social classes in literature --- Sociale klassen in de literatuur --- Aristocracy (Social class) in literature. --- Clerks --- Courts and courtiers in literature. --- English poetry --- Literature and society --- Literature and state --- Politics and literature --- Social classes in literature. --- Attitudes. --- History and criticism. --- History --- Chaucer, Geoffrey, --- Contemporaries. --- Political and social views. --- Great Britain --- Politics and government --- Chaucer, Geoffrey --- Political and social views --- Contemporaries --- Middle English, 1100-1500 --- History and criticism --- To 1500 --- Attitudes --- 1066-1485