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UNINA9910465931503321 |
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Wright Erika <1970-> |
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Reading for health : medical narratives and the nineteenth-century novel / / Erika Wright |
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Athens, Ohio : , : Ohio University Press, , [2016] |
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©2016 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (241 p.) |
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Collana |
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Series in Victorian studies |
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Soggetti |
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English fiction - 19th century - History and criticism |
Literature and medicine - Great Britain - History - 19th century |
Medicine in literature |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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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Sommario/riassunto |
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In Reading for Health: Medical Narratives and the Nineteenth-Century Novel, Erika Wright argues that the emphasis in Victorian Studies on disease as the primary source of narrative conflict that must be resolved has obscured the complex reading practices that emerge around the concept of health. |
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