Overview
- Represents the first monograph to deal with medical issues in the early American novel
- Uses depictions of health, illness, and healing in literature to offer an in-depth look at social behavior and philosophies of Post-revolutionary American culture
- Holds interdisciplinary appeal in the fields of literature, history and politics
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine (PLSM)
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“Tuthill offers a sorely-needed analysis of Federalist literature's depictions of medicine. She adroitly argues that scenes of care give us access to an important tension within early national identity. On the one hand, such scenes foreground a need to minister to others in times of illness in order to build bonds of social affectation and, on the other hand, they emphasize citizens' responsibility to protect their health as a form of self-interest. Health and Sickness in the Early American Novel provides valuable insights into why medicine matters for understanding what it meant to be an early American.” (Kelly Bezio, English Department, Texas A&M University, USA)
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Book Title: Health and Sickness in the Early American Novel
Book Subtitle: Social Affection and Eighteenth-Century Medicine
Authors: Maureen Tuthill
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59715-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-59714-4Published: 05 October 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-95567-1Published: 15 June 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-59715-1Published: 26 September 2016
Series ISSN: 2634-6435
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6443
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 253
Topics: Eighteenth-Century Literature, North American Literature, Fiction, Literary History