Reading for health : : medical narratives and the nineteenth-century novel / / Erika Wright.
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| Superior document: | Series in Victorian studies |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Athens, Ohio : : Ohio University Press,, [2016] 2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Series in Victorian Studies.
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (241 pages) |
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Table of 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.