LEADER 03951nam 22005895 450 001 9910255250303321 005 20200930194537.0 010 $a1-137-59715-1 024 7 $a10.1057/978-1-137-59715-1 035 $a(CKB)3710000000873220 035 $a(DE-He213)978-1-137-59715-1 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4720033 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000873220 100 $a20160926d2016 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn|008mamaa 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aHealth and Sickness in the Early American Novel$b[electronic resource] $eSocial Affection and Eighteenth-Century Medicine /$fby Maureen Tuthill 205 $a1st ed. 2016. 210 1$aLondon :$cPalgrave Macmillan UK :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2016. 215 $a1 online resource (XIV, 253 p.) 225 1 $aPalgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine,$x2634-6435 311 $a1-137-59714-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aPreface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. A ?Very Unfeeling World?: The Failure of Social Healing in Rowson?s America -- 2. ?Your Health and My Happiness?: Sickness and Health in The Coquette and Female Quixotism -- 3. ?The Best Means of Retaining Health?: Self-determined Health and Social Discipline in Early America -- 4. ?The Means of Subsistence?: Health, Wealth, and Social Affection in a Yellow Fever World -- 5. The ?Learned Doctor?: Tyler?s Literary Endorsement of a Federalist Elite -- 6. ?Some Yankee Non-sense about Humanity?: Hiding Away African Health in Early American Fiction -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.-. 330 $aThis book is a study of depictions of health and sickness in the early American novel, 1787-1808. These texts reveal a troubling tension between the impulse toward social affection that built cohesion in the nation and the pursuit of self-interest that was considered central to the emerging liberalism of the new Republic. Good health is depicted as an extremely positive social value, almost an a priori condition of membership in the community. Characters who have the ?glow of health? tend to enjoy wealth and prestige; those who become sick are burdened by poverty and debt or have made bad decisions that have jeopardized their status. Bodies that waste away, faint, or literally disappear off of the pages of America?s first fiction are resisting the conditions that ail them; as they plead for their right to exist, they draw attention to the injustice, apathy, and greed that afflict them. 410 0$aPalgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine,$x2634-6435 606 $aLiterature, Modern?18th century 606 $aAmerica?Literatures 606 $aFiction 606 $aLiterature?History and criticism 606 $aEighteenth-Century Literature$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/819000 606 $aNorth American Literature$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/834000 606 $aFiction$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/825000 606 $aLiterary History$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/813000 608 $aCriticism, interpretation, etc.$2fast 615 0$aLiterature, Modern?18th century. 615 0$aAmerica?Literatures. 615 0$aFiction. 615 0$aLiterature?History and criticism. 615 14$aEighteenth-Century Literature. 615 24$aNorth American Literature. 615 24$aFiction. 615 24$aLiterary History. 676 $a809.033 700 $aTuthill$b Maureen$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01064861 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910255250303321 996 $aHealth and Sickness in the Early American Novel$92541236 997 $aUNINA