Wright, Erika,  1970- <br/><br/>
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. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780821445631 (e-book) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>English fiction--History and criticism.--19th century<br/>Literature and medicine--History--Great Britain--19th century.<br/>Medicine in literature.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PR878.M42  / W75 2016 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>823/.8093561