Convalescence in the Nineteenth-Century Novel

Convalescence in the Nineteenth-Century Novel

The Afterlife of Victorian Illness

Krienke, Hosanna

Cambridge University Press

05/2021

205

Dura

Inglês

9781108844840

15 a 20 dias

490

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1. Convalescence and the Working-Class: Convalescent Homes, Illness Outcomes, and Charles Dickens's Bleak House; 2. Spiritual Convalescence: Reading Against the Deathbed in Convalescent Devotionals and Elizabeth Gaskell's Ruth; 3. Novel-Reading as Convalescence: Gender and Leisure in Wilkie Collins's The Moonstone; 4. Convalescence and Mental Illness: Recuperability in Insane Asylums, the After-Care Association, and Samuel Butler's Erewhon; 5. Imperial Convalescence: Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Secret Garden, Convalescent Depots, and the Birth of Rehabilitation Medicine.