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

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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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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Wright, Erika, 1970- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, [2016]
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Krankheit > Motiv
Gesundheit > Motiv
Medizin > Motiv
Roman
Englisch
Medicine in literature.
Literature and medicine.
English fiction.
History, 19th Century
Medicine in Literature
Literature and medicine > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
English fiction > 19th century > History and criticism.
Great Britain.
United Kingdom
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.

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