Without and Within: Victorian Mourning and Treatment of the DeadMain MenuFleeing Death: Victorian Paranoia Concerning Public HealthFirst SectionDying Well and Loved: At the Moment of Death and MourningSecond SectionWearing and Burying Death: Fashion, Mourning, and Public Displays of DeathThird SectionUp and Down the Stair with Burke and Hare: Body-SnatchingFourth SectionWeird Science: Anatomical Use of the DeadFifth SectionWorks Cited/Full-Texts/Further ReadingsKyle Brett425ed005fc457ac8e436783036f285b42b192fb4
Corbett's 1889 utopian novel, New Amazonia, presents us with a rather terrifying display of national health regulation in the form of a modified eugenic system, yet here my focus is drawn to this print edition's inclusion of popular health advertisements at the conclusion of the narrative. These, paired with the other quack-cures of the period, seem to speak to the obsession of Corbett's text on a healthy national state. Here the utopian formulations meld with the contemporary need to control, regulate, and modify the self to be counted as a member of the state system.