[PDF] Convalescence In The Nineteenth Century Novel eBook

Author : Hosanna Krienke
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 14,63 MB
Release : 2021-05-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1108957064

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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. As a method of caregiving intended to alleviate both physical and social ills, convalescence united patients of disparate social classes, disease categories, and degrees of impairment. Ultimately, this study demonstrates how novels from Bleak House to The Secret Garden draw on the unhurried timescale of convalescence as an ethical paradigm, training readers to value unfolding narratives apart from their ultimate resolutions.

Author : Hosanna Krienke
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 36,32 MB
Release : 2021-05-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1108844847

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This interdisciplinary study examines how holistic aftercare became a crucial supplement to scientific medicine in nineteenth-century Britain.

Author : Aaron Rosenberg
Publisher :
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 30,89 MB
Release : 2023-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1009271822

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At the turn of the twentieth century, novelists faced an unprecedented crisis of scale. While exponential increases in industrial production, resource extraction, and technological complexity accelerated daily life, growing concerns about deep time, evolution, globalization, and extinction destabilised scale's value as a measure of reality. Here, Aaron Rosenberg examines how four novelists moved radically beyond novelistic realism, repurposing the genres-romance, melodrama, gothic, and epic-it had ostensibly superseded. He demonstrates how H. G. Wells, Thomas Hardy, Joseph Conrad, and Virginia Woolf engaged with climatic and ecological crises that persist today, requiring us to navigate multiple temporal and spatial scales simultaneously. The volume shows that problems of scale constrain our responses to crisis by shaping the linguistic, aesthetic, and narrative structures through which we imagine it. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.

Author : Fraser Riddell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 45,44 MB
Release : 2022-04-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1108996337

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Drawing on an ambitious range of interdisciplinary material, including literature, musical treatises and theoretical texts, Music and the Queer Body explores the central place music held for emergent queer identities in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. Canonical writers such as Walter Pater, E. M. Forster and Virginia Woolf are discussed alongside lesser-known figures such as John Addington Symonds, Vernon Lee and Arthur Symons. Engaging with a number of historical case studies, Fraser Riddell pays particular attention to the significance of embodiment in queer musical subcultures and draws on contemporary queer theory and phenomenology to show how writers associate music with shameful, masochistic and anti-humanist subject positions. Ultimately, this study reveals how literary texts at the fin de siècle invest music with queer agency: to challenge or refuse essentialist identities, to facilitate re-conceptions of embodied subjectivity, and to present alternative sensory experiences of space and time. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Author : Sarah Green
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 14,85 MB
Release : 2023-03-31
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1108831516

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Sarah Green shows how late Victorian Decadent literature paradoxically treats sexual restraint as healthy and aesthetically productive.

Author : Dennis Denisoff
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 15,8 MB
Release : 2021-12-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1108998348

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Decadent Ecology illuminates the networks of nature, paganism, and desire in 19th- and early 20th-century decadent literature and art. Combining the environmental humanities with aesthetic, queer and literary theory, this study reveals the interplay of art, eco-paganism and science during the formation of modern ecological and evolutionary thought.

Author : Jacob Jewusiak
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 49,76 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1108499171

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Argues that novelists graft aging onto narrative duration and reveals the politics of senescence in nineteenth and early-twentieth century plots.

Author : Adam Abraham
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 30,97 MB
Release : 2019-08-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1108493076

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Views the Victorian novel through the prism of literary imitations that it inspired.

Author : Amelia Bonea
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 43,82 MB
Release : 2019-07-02
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0822986604

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Much like the Information Age of the twenty-first century, the Industrial Age was a period of great social changes brought about by rapid industrialization and urbanization, speed of travel, and global communications. The literature, medicine, science, and popular journalism of the nineteenth century attempted to diagnose problems of the mind and body that such drastic transformations were thought to generate: a range of conditions or “diseases of modernity” resulting from specific changes in the social and physical environment. The alarmist rhetoric of newspapers and popular periodicals, advertising various “neurotic remedies,” in turn inspired a new class of physicians and quack medical practices devoted to the treatment and perpetuation of such conditions. Anxious Times examines perceptions of the pressures of modern life and their impact on bodily and mental health in nineteenth-century Britain. The authors explore anxieties stemming from the potentially harmful impact of new technologies, changing work and leisure practices, and evolving cultural pressures and expectations within rapidly changing external environments. Their work reveals how an earlier age confronted the challenges of seemingly unprecedented change, and diagnosed transformations in both the culture of the era and the life of the mind.