Representations of Health, Illness, and Repair in the Works of - Louisa May Alcot

This book examines the cultural work and meaning-making of Louisa May Alcott's representations of health and illness. It investigates not only the ways in which her stories critically explore issues of well-being and affliction in nineteenth-century America but also the reparative strategies that her narratives make available.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter One: Contextualizing and Reading Health, Illness, and Repair
Chapter Two: Little Patient Beth
Chapter Three: Illness and the Everyday in Little Men and Jo's Boys
Chapter Four: Girls' Education for Health in Eight Cousins and Rose in Bloom
Chapter Five: Trauma, Illness, and Repair in Hospital Sketches
Chapter Six: The Nurse's Battle in Alcott's Short(er) Fiction
Conclusion
Bibliography
About the Author

About the author

Michaela Keck is senior lecturer in the English and American studies department at Carl von Ossietzky University in Oldenburg, Germany.

Product details

• Authors: Michaela Keck
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.11.2024
• EAN: 9781666922646
• ISBN: 978-1-66692-264-6
• No. of pages: 184
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; USA, English, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disease & Health Issues, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, Illness & addiction: social aspects, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, United States of America, USA, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Health, illness and addiction: social aspects, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form