LEADER 03208nam 2200625 450 001 9910809665103321 005 20230808191536.0 010 $a0-8214-4563-4 035 $a(CKB)3710000000583770 035 $a(EBL)4386513 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001601035 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16308435 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001601035 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)14853149 035 $a(PQKB)11263550 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4386513 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4386513 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11151853 035 $a(OCoLC)936379756 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)musev2_99430 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000583770 100 $a20151207h20162016 uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aReading for health $emedical narratives and the nineteenth-century novel /$fErika Wright 210 1$aAthens, Ohio :$cOhio University Press,$d[2016] 210 4$dİ2016 215 $a1 online resource (241 p.) 225 1 $aSeries in Victorian studies 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8214-2224-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction: 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. 330 $aIn Reading for Health, Erika Wright argues that the emphasis in Victorian studies on disease as the primary source of narrative conflict has obscured the complex reading practices that emerge around the concept of health. By shifting attention to the ways that prevention of illness and the preservation of well-being operate in fiction, Wright offers a new approach to reading character and voice, order and temporality, setting and metaphor. As Wright reveals, while canonical works by Austen, Bront, Dickens, Martineau, and Gaskell register the pervasiveness of a conventional "therapeutic" form of action and mode of reading, they demonstrate as well a powerful investment in the achievement and maintenance of "health," both in personal and domestic-conduct and in the social interaction of the individual within the community. 410 0$aSeries in Victorian Studies. 606 $aEnglish fiction$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aLiterature and medicine$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aMedicine in literature 607 $aGreat Britain$2fast 607 $aUnited Kingdom 615 7$aEnglish fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 7$aLiterature and medicine$xHistory 615 7$aMedicine in literature. 676 $a823/.8093561 700 $aWright$b Erika$f1970-$01719266 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910809665103321 996 $aReading for health$94116937 997 $aUNINA