The sickroom in Victorian fiction : the art of being ill / Miriam Bailin
1994, First Edition. Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #404298
ISBN: 0521445264
Physical description; ix, 169 pages ; 24 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-166) and index. Contents; Life in the sickroom -- Charlotte Brontë: "varieties of pain" -- Charles Dickens: "impossible existences" -- George Eliot: "separateness and communication" -- Afterword. Subjects; Brontë, Charlotte 1816-1855 Characters. Dickens, Charles 1812-1870 Characters. Eliot, George 1819-1880 Characters. Care of the sick in literature. English fiction 19th century History and criticism. Medicine in literature. Literature and medicine Great Britain History 19th century. Medical fiction History and criticism. Sick Psychology.
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