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@article{ART002905104},
author={Seohyon Jung},
title={Britain Under the Influence: Anti-Science Collectivity as Knowledge in Wilkie Collins’s The Moonstone},
journal={Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University},
issn={1598-3021},
year={2022},
volume={79},
number={4},
pages={37-68},
doi={10.17326/jhsnu.79.4.202211.37}

TY - JOUR
AU - Seohyon Jung
TI - Britain Under the Influence: Anti-Science Collectivity as Knowledge in Wilkie Collins’s The Moonstone
JO - Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University
PY - 2022
VL - 79
IS - 4
PB - Institute of Humanities, Seoul National University
SP - 37
EP - 68
SN - 1598-3021
AB - This article explores the historical tension between emerging medical science and the collective anti-science sentiment of the British empire as depicted in Wilkie Collins’s The Moonstone. By highlighting that “being under the influence” operates as the key to both the onset of the central mystery and its resolution, I argue that The Moonstone exposes the desires and failures of British epistemology, which hierarchizes different forms of knowledge and even pathologizes some in the name of science. Furthermore, the plot’s reliance on the unpredictable operation of opium on the human body and the characters’ tolerance of, or indulgence in, the imperfect solution of the crime demonstrate how the intellectual satisfaction of the detective genre disguises the conflict between medical knowledge and anti-science sentiments. This article thereby aims to historicize British detective fiction as a troubled colonial product that ironically banks on anti-science collectivity while the genre promotes the scientific triumph of the empire.
KW - Wilkie Collins;The Moonstone;Empire;Opium;Being Under the Influence;Collectivity;Anti-Science;Distrust of Medicine;Knowledge;Nineteenth-Century Detective Fiction
DO - 10.17326/jhsnu.79.4.202211.37
ER -

Seohyon Jung. (2022). Britain Under the Influence: Anti-Science Collectivity as Knowledge in Wilkie Collins’s The Moonstone. Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University, 79(4), 37-68.

Seohyon Jung. 2022, "Britain Under the Influence: Anti-Science Collectivity as Knowledge in Wilkie Collins’s The Moonstone", Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University, vol.79, no.4 pp.37-68. Available from: doi:10.17326/jhsnu.79.4.202211.37

Seohyon Jung "Britain Under the Influence: Anti-Science Collectivity as Knowledge in Wilkie Collins’s The Moonstone" Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University 79.4 pp.37-68 (2022) : 37.

Seohyon Jung. Britain Under the Influence: Anti-Science Collectivity as Knowledge in Wilkie Collins’s The Moonstone. 2022; 79(4), 37-68. Available from: doi:10.17326/jhsnu.79.4.202211.37

Seohyon Jung. "Britain Under the Influence: Anti-Science Collectivity as Knowledge in Wilkie Collins’s The Moonstone" Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University 79, no.4 (2022) : 37-68.doi: 10.17326/jhsnu.79.4.202211.37

Seohyon Jung. Britain Under the Influence: Anti-Science Collectivity as Knowledge in Wilkie Collins’s The Moonstone. Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University, 79(4), 37-68. doi: 10.17326/jhsnu.79.4.202211.37

Seohyon Jung. Britain Under the Influence: Anti-Science Collectivity as Knowledge in Wilkie Collins’s The Moonstone. Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University. 2022; 79(4) 37-68. doi: 10.17326/jhsnu.79.4.202211.37

Seohyon Jung. Britain Under the Influence: Anti-Science Collectivity as Knowledge in Wilkie Collins’s The Moonstone. 2022; 79(4), 37-68. Available from: doi:10.17326/jhsnu.79.4.202211.37

Seohyon Jung. "Britain Under the Influence: Anti-Science Collectivity as Knowledge in Wilkie Collins’s The Moonstone" Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University 79, no.4 (2022) : 37-68.doi: 10.17326/jhsnu.79.4.202211.37