Convalescence in the nineteenth-century novel : the afterlife of Victorian illness

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Title
"Convalescence in the nineteenth-century novel : the afterlife of Victorian illness"
Statement of Responsibility
Hosanna Krienke
Publisher
  • Cambridge University Press
Publication Year
  • 2021
Book size
24 cm
Series Name / No
  • : hardback

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Notes

Summary: "Victorian Britain witnessed a resurgence of traditional convalescent caregiving. In the face of a hectic modern existence, nineteenth-century thinkers argued that all medical patients desperately required a lengthy, meandering period of recovery. Various reformers worked to extend the benefits of holistic recuperative care to seemingly unlikely groups: working-class hospital patients, insane asylum inmates, even low-ranking soldiers across the British Empire. Hosanna Krienke offers the first sustained scholarly assessment of nineteenth-century convalescent culture, revealing how interpersonal post-acute care was touted as a critical supplement to modern scientific medicine. "--Provided by publisher

Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-220) and index

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