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Health and Sickness in the Early American Novel

Social Affection and Eighteenth-Century Medicine de

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Palgrave Macmillan


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Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine

Paru le : 2016-09-26

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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.
Pages
253 pages
Collection
Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
Parution
2016-09-26
Marque
Palgrave Macmillan
EAN papier
9781137597144
EAN PDF
9781137597151
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Nombre pages copiables
2
Nombre pages imprimables
25
Taille du fichier
2161 Ko
Prix
60,49 €
EAN EPUB
9781137597151
Informations sur l'ebook
Nombre pages copiables
2
Nombre pages imprimables
25
Taille du fichier
543 Ko
Prix
60,49 €

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