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Reading for health : medical narratives and the nineteenth-century novel /
In Reading for Health: Medical Narratives and the Nineteenth-Century Novel, Erika Wright argues that the emphasis in Victorian Studies on disease as the primary source of narrative conflict that must be resolved has obscured the complex reading practices that emerge around the concept of health.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Athens, Ohio :
Ohio University Press,
[2016]
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| Colección: | Series in Victorian Studies.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: becoming patient readers
- pt. 1. Domestication
- Jane Austen's plots of prevention
- Health, identity, and narrative authority in Jane Eyre
- pt. 2. Isolation
- Quarantine, social theory, and Little Dorrit
- The omniscience of invalidism: The case of Harriet Martineau
- pt. 3. Professionalization
- Narrative competence and the family doctor in Gaskell's Wives and daughters
- Afterword: health in narrative medicine.