Through detailed readings of the fiction of Charlotte Brontë, Charles Dickens and George Eliot Miriam Bailin explores the cultural and narrative significance of illness in Victorian literature, providing insight into canonical works and approaches to narrative realism.
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In this exploration of the significance of illness in the Victorian literary imagination Miriam Bailin maps the cultural implications and narrative effects of the sickroom as an important symbolic space in nineteenth-century life and literature. Dr Bailin draws on non-fictional accounts of illness by Julia Stephen, Harriet Martineau and others to illuminate the presentation of illness and ministration, patient and nurse, in the fiction of Charlotte Brontë, Charles Dickens and George Eliot. She argues that the sickroom functions as an imagined retreat from conflicts in Victorian society, and that fictional representations of illness serve to resolve both social conflict and aesthetic tension. Her concentration on the sickroom scene as a compositional response to insistent formal as well as social problems yields fresh readings of canonical works and approaches to the constituent elements of Victorian realist narrative.
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First Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; ix, 169 pages ; 24 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-166) and index. Contents; Life in the sickroom -- Charlotte Brontë: "varieties of pain" -- Charles Dickens: "impossible existences" -- George Eliot: "separateness and communication" -- Afterword. Subjects; Brontë, Charlotte 1816-1855 Characters. Dickens, Charles 1812-1870 Characters. Eliot, George 1819-1880 Characters. Care of the sick in literature. English fiction 19th century History and criticism. Medicine in literature. Literature and medicine Great Britain History 19th century. Medical fiction History and criticism. Sick Psychology. 1 Kg. Nº de ref. del artículo: 404298
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First Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; ix, 169 pages ; 24 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-166) and index. Contents; Life in the sickroom -- Charlotte Brontë: "varieties of pain" -- Charles Dickens: "impossible existences" -- George Eliot: "separateness and communication" -- Afterword. Subjects; Brontë, Charlotte 1816-1855 Characters. Dickens, Charles 1812-1870 Characters. Eliot, George 1819-1880 Characters. Care of the sick in literature. English fiction 19th century History and criticism. Medicine in literature. Literature and medicine Great Britain History 19th century. Medical fiction History and criticism. Sick Psychology. 1 Kg. Nº de ref. del artículo: 404298
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