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Health and Sickness in the Early American Novel = Social Affection and Eighteenth-Century Medicine /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Health and Sickness in the Early American Novel/ by Maureen Tuthill.
Reminder of title:	Social Affection and Eighteenth-Century Medicine /
Author:	Tuthill, Maureen.
Description:	XIV, 253 p.online resource. :
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	Literature, Modern—18th century. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59715-1
ISBN:	9781137597151

Health and Sickness in the Early American Novel = Social Affection and Eighteenth-Century Medicine /
Tuthill, Maureen.

Health and Sickness in the Early American NovelSocial Affection and Eighteenth-Century Medicine /[electronic resource] :by Maureen Tuthill. - 1st ed. 2016. - XIV, 253 p.online resource. - Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine,2634-6435. - Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine,.

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.

ISBN: 9781137597151

Standard No.: 10.1057/978-1-137-59715-1doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

1254161
Literature, Modern—18th century.

LC Class. No.: PN750-759

Dewey Class. No.: 809.033

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