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Author:

Wright, Erika, 1970- author.

Title:

Reading for health : medical narratives and the nineteenth-century novel / Erika Wright.

Publisher:

Ohio University Press,

Copyright Date:

2016

Description:

x, 229 pages ; 24 cm.

Subject:

English fiction--19th century--History and criticism.
Literature and medicine--Great Britain--History--19th century.
Medicine in literature.
English fiction.
Literature and medicine.
Medicine in literature.
Great Britain.
1800 - 1899
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

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.

Series:

Series in Victorian studies

ISBN:

0821422243
9780821422243

OCLC:

(OCoLC)932003510

LCCN:

2015041247

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)