02599nam 2200601 450 991046593150332120200520144314.00-8214-4563-4(CKB)3710000000583770(EBL)4386513(SSID)ssj0001601035(PQKBManifestationID)16308435(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001601035(PQKBWorkID)14853149(PQKB)11263550(MiAaPQ)EBC4386513(Au-PeEL)EBL4386513(CaPaEBR)ebr11151853(OCoLC)936379756(EXLCZ)99371000000058377020151207h20162016 uy| 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrReading for health medical narratives and the nineteenth-century novel /Erika WrightAthens, Ohio :Ohio University Press,[2016]©20161 online resource (241 p.)Series in Victorian studiesDescription based upon print version of record.0-8214-2224-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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.Series in Victorian Studies.English fiction19th centuryHistory and criticismLiterature and medicineGreat BritainHistory19th centuryMedicine in literatureElectronic books.English fictionHistory and criticism.Literature and medicineHistoryMedicine in literature.823/.8093561Wright Erika1970-966046MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910465931503321Reading for health2192315UNINA