Reading for health : medical narratives and the nineteenth-century novel
Title:
Reading for health : medical narratives and the nineteenth-century novel
Author:
Wright, Erika, 1970- author.
ISBN:
9780821445631
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (241 pages)
Series:
Series in Victorian studies
Series in Victorian Studies.
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.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2016. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
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