Health and Sickness in the Early American Novel
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-349-95567-1 (ISBN)
Maureen Tuthill is Associate Professor of English and A.P. Green Endowed Fellow in English at Westminster College, Fulton, Missouri, USA. Her articles and reviews have appeared in Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers, Literature of the Early American Republic, and Early American Literature.
Preface.- Acknowledgments.- Introduction.- 1. A “Very Unfeeling World”: The Failure of Social Healing in Rowson’s America.- 2. “Your Health and My Happiness”: Sickness and Health in The Coquette and Female Quixotism.- 3. “The Best Means of Retaining Health”: Self-determined Health and Social Discipline in Early America.- 4. “The Means of Subsistence”: Health, Wealth, and Social Affection in a Yellow Fever World.- 5. The “Learned Doctor”: Tyler’s Literary Endorsement of a Federalist Elite.- 6. “Some Yankee Non-sense about Humanity”: Hiding Away African Health in Early American Fiction.- Epilogue.- Notes.- Bibliography.- Index.-
Erscheinungsdatum | 25.08.2018 |
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Reihe/Serie | Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine |
Zusatzinfo | XIV, 253 p. |
Verlagsort | Basingstoke |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 148 x 210 mm |
Themenwelt | Literatur |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
Schlagworte | Disease • Early America • Federal era • Healing • Medical History • Medical Sociology • Medicine |
ISBN-10 | 1-349-95567-1 / 1349955671 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-349-95567-1 / 9781349955671 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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