Convalescence in the Nineteenth Century Novel Book [PDF] Download

• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
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• Release Date : 13 May 2021

This interdisciplinary study examines how holistic aftercare became a crucial supplement to scientific medicine in nineteenth-century Britain.

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• Release Date : 01 November 2023

At the turn of the twentieth century, novelists faced an unprecedented crisis of scale. While exponential increases in industrial production, resource extraction, and technological complexity accelerated daily life, growing concerns

• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
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• Release Date : 31 March 2023

Sarah Green shows how late Victorian Decadent literature paradoxically treats sexual restraint as healthy and aesthetically productive.

• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
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• Release Date : 16 December 2021

Decadent Ecology illuminates the networks of nature, paganism, and desire in 19th- and early 20th-century decadent literature and art. Combining the environmental humanities with aesthetic, queer and literary theory, this

• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
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• Release Date : 17 June 2024

Argues that novelists graft aging onto narrative duration and reveals the politics of senescence in nineteenth and early-twentieth century plots.

• Publisher : Ohio University Press
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• Release Date : 15 March 2016

In Reading for Health: Medical Narratives and the Nineteenth-Century Novel, Erika Wright argues that the emphasis in Victorian Studies on disease as the primary source of narrative conflict that must

• Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
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• Release Date : 17 May 2023

The long 19th century-stretching from the start of the American Revolution in 1776 to the end of World War I in 1918-was a pivotal period in the history of disability for

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• Release Date : 17 June 1865

• Publisher : Princeton University Press
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• Release Date : 12 December 1994

Vital Signs offers both a compelling reinterpretation of the nineteenth-century novel and a methodological challenge to literary historians. Rejecting theories that equate realism with representation, Lawrence Rothfield argues that literary

• Publisher : Stanford University Press
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• Release Date : 17 June 1995

This book focuses on the centrality of illness—particularly psychosomatic illness—as an imaginative construct in Victorian culture. It shows how illness shaped the terms through which people perceived relationships