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Reading for health : medical narratives and the nineteenth-century novel / Erika Wright.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Series in Victorian StudiesPublisher: Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, [2016]Copyright date: �2016Description: 1 online resource (241 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780821445631 (e-book)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Reading for health : medical narratives and the nineteenth-century novel.DDC classification:
  • 823/.8093561 23
LOC classification:
  • PR878.M42 W75 2016
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
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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.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2016. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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