The Sickroom in Victorian Fiction: The Art of Being Ill

(Part of the Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture Series)

by Miriam Bailin

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In this exploration of the significance of illness in the Victorian literary imagination Miriam Bailin maps the cultural implications and narrative effects of the sickroom as an important symbolic space in nineteenth-century life and literature. Dr Bailin draws on non-fictional accounts of illness by Julia Stephen, Harriet Martineau and others to illuminate the presentation of illness and ministration, patient and nurse, in the fiction of Charlotte...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0521036402

ISBN13:9780521036405

Release Date:May 2007

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Length:180 Pages

Weight:0.60 lbs.

Dimensions:0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"

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