Hosanna Krienke, Convalescence in the Nineteenth-Century Novel: The Afterlife of Victorian Illness
In Convalescence in the Nineteenth-Century Novel: the Afterlife of Victorian Illness, Hosanna Krienke sheds light on an essential aspect of care that gained momentum in the Victorian era but that has paradoxically often been overlooked by scholars—that is the transitional period of recuperation aft...
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| Natura: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Lingua: | Anglais |
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Cahiers victoriens et édouardiens
2025
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| Accesso online: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Riassunto: | In Convalescence in the Nineteenth-Century Novel: the Afterlife of Victorian Illness, Hosanna Krienke sheds light on an essential aspect of care that gained momentum in the Victorian era but that has paradoxically often been overlooked by scholars—that is the transitional period of recuperation after a health crisis. This insightful book examines the literary representations and narrative forms of convalescence in five novels: Charles Dickens’s Bleak House, Elizabeth Gaskell’s Ruth, Wilkie C... |
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