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Author:

Penner, Louise

Title:

Victorian medicine and social reform : Florence Nightingale among the novelists / Louise Penner.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

Palgrave Macmillan,

Copyright Date:

2010

Description:

xxi, 193 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Subject:

English prose literature--Great Britain--History and criticism.
English prose literature--19th century--History and criticism.
Nightingale, Florence,--1820-1910--Influence.
Nightingale, Florence,--1820-1910--Political and social views.
Social problems in literature
Medicine in literature
Literature and society--Great Britain--History--19th century.
Literature and medicine--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Defending home and country : Florence Nightingale's training of domestic detectives -- On giving : poor law reform, work, and family in Nightingale, Dickens, and Stretton -- Competing visions : Nightingale, Eliot, and Victorian health reform -- Engaging the Victorian reading public : Nightingale and the Madras Famine of 1876 -- Epilogue : Nightingale in the twenty-first century : the legend versus the life.

Series:

Nineenth-century major lives and letters

ISBN:

0230615953 (alk. paper)
9780230615953 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)369141283

LCCN:

2009035775

Locations:

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

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)