Reading for Health - Medical Narratives and the Nineteenth-century Novel

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 be resolved has obscured the complex reading practices that emerge around the concept of health.

Summary

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 be resolved has obscured the complex reading practices that emerge around the concept of health.

Product details

• Authors: Erika Wright
• Publisher: University of ohio press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2016
• EAN: 9780821422243
• ISBN: 978-0-8214-2224-3
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Series in Victorian Studies; Series in Victorian Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General