03208nam 2200625 450 991079819910332120230808191536.00-8214-4563-4(CKB)3710000000583770(EBL)4386513(SSID)ssj0001601035(PQKBManifestationID)16308435(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001601035(PQKBWorkID)14853149(PQKB)11263550(MiAaPQ)EBC4386513(Au-PeEL)EBL4386513(CaPaEBR)ebr11151853(OCoLC)936379756(MdBmJHUP)musev2_99430(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, Erika Wright argues that the emphasis in Victorian studies on disease as the primary source of narrative conflict has obscured the complex reading practices that emerge around the concept of health. By shifting attention to the ways that prevention of illness and the preservation of well-being operate in fiction, Wright offers a new approach to reading character and voice, order and temporality, setting and metaphor. As Wright reveals, while canonical works by Austen, Bront, Dickens, Martineau, and Gaskell register the pervasiveness of a conventional "therapeutic" form of action and mode of reading, they demonstrate as well a powerful investment in the achievement and maintenance of "health," both in personal and domestic-conduct and in the social interaction of the individual within the community.Series in Victorian Studies.English fiction19th centuryHistory and criticismLiterature and medicineGreat BritainHistory19th centuryMedicine in literatureGreat BritainfastUnited KingdomEnglish fictionHistory and criticism.Literature and medicineHistoryMedicine in literature.823/.8093561Wright Erika1970-1525184MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910798199103321Reading for health3766370UNINA