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Reading for Health : Medical Narratives and the Nineteenth-Century Novel /

In Reading for Health, Erika Wright argues that the emphasis in Victorian studies on disease as the primary source of narrative conflict has obscured the complex reading practices that emerge around the concept of health. By shifting attention to the ways that prevention of illness and the preservat...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Wright, Erika, 1970- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, [2016]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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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.