书目名称 | Health and Sickness in the Early American Novel |
副标题 | Social Affection and |
编辑 | Maureen Tuthill |
视频video | http://file.papertrans.cn/425/424798/424798.mp4 |
概述 | Represents the first monograph to deal with medical issues in the early American novel.Uses depictions of health, illness, and healing in literature to offer an in-depth look at social behavior and ph |
丛书名称 | Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine |
图书封面 |  |
描述 | This book is a study of depictions of health and sickness in the early American novel, 1787-1808. These texts reveal a troubling tension between the impulse toward social affection that built cohesion in the nation and the pursuit of self-interest that was considered central to the emerging liberalism of the new Republic. Good health is depicted as an extremely positive social value, almost an .a priori. condition of membership in the community. Characters who have the “glow of health” tend to enjoy wealth and prestige; those who become sick are burdened by poverty and debt or have made bad decisions that have jeopardized their status. Bodies that waste away, faint, or literally disappear off of the pages of America’s first fiction are resisting the conditions that ail them; as they plead for their right to exist, they draw attention to the injustice, apathy, and greed that afflict them. |
出版日期 | Book 2016 |
关键词 | Medicine; Early America; Healing; Disease; Medical sociology; Medical history; Federal era |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59715-1 |
isbn_softcover | 978-1-349-95567-1 |
isbn_ebook | 978-1-137-59715-1Series ISSN 2634-6435 Series E-ISSN 2634-6443 |
issn_series | 2634-6435 |
copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016 |