Convalescence in the Nineteenth-Century Novel : The Afterlife of Victorian Illness Paperback / softback
by Hosanna (University of Wyoming) Krienke
Part of the Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture series
Paperback / softback
Description
Victorian Britain witnessed a resurgence of traditional convalescent caregiving.
In the face of a hectic modern existence, nineteenth-century thinkers argued that all medical patients desperately required a lengthy, meandering period of recovery.
Various reformers worked to extend the benefits of holistic recuperative care to seemingly unlikely groups: working-class hospital patients, insane asylum inmates, even low-ranking soldiers across the British Empire.
Hosanna Krienke offers the first sustained scholarly assessment of nineteenth-century convalescent culture, revealing how interpersonal post-acute care was touted as a critical supplement to modern scientific medicine.
As a method of caregiving intended to alleviate both physical and social ills, convalescence united patients of disparate social classes, disease categories, and degrees of impairment.
Ultimately, this study demonstrates how novels from Bleak House to The Secret Garden draw on the unhurried timescale of convalescence as an ethical paradigm, training readers to value unfolding narratives apart from their ultimate resolutions.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:244 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:22/06/2023
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- ISBN:9781108948913
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Less than 10 available - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:244 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:22/06/2023
- Category:
- ISBN:9781108948913
