Reading for health :
Wright, Erika, 1970-
Reading for health : medical narratives and the nineteenth-century novel / Erika Wright. - 1 online resource (241 pages) - Series in Victorian studies . - Series in Victorian Studies. .
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.
9780821445631 (e-book)
English fiction--History and criticism.--19th century
Literature and medicine--History--Great Britain--19th century.
Medicine in literature.
Electronic books.
PR878.M42 / W75 2016
823/.8093561
Reading for health : medical narratives and the nineteenth-century novel / Erika Wright. - 1 online resource (241 pages) - Series in Victorian studies . - Series in Victorian Studies. .
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.
9780821445631 (e-book)
English fiction--History and criticism.--19th century
Literature and medicine--History--Great Britain--19th century.
Medicine in literature.
Electronic books.
PR878.M42 / W75 2016
823/.8093561