TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bailin,Miriam
TI  - The sickroom in Victorian fiction: the art of being ill 
T2  - Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture
SN  - 9780511553592 (ebook)
AV  - PR878.S5 B35 1994
U1  - 823/.809356 20
PY  - 1994///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Brontë, Charlotte,
KW  - Dickens, Charles,
KW  - Eliot, George,
KW  - English fiction
KW  - 19th century
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Care of the sick in literature
KW  - Medicine in literature
KW  - Literature and medicine
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - History
KW  - Medical fiction
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015); Life in the sickroom -- Charlotte Brontë: "varieties of pain" -- Charles Dickens: "impossible existences" -- Geroge Eliot: "separateness and communication" -- Afterword
N2  - In this exploration of the significance of illness in the Victorian literary imagination Miriam Bailin maps the cultural implications and narrative effects of the sickroom as an important symbolic space in nineteenth-century life and literature. Dr Bailin draws on non-fictional accounts of illness by Julia Stephen, Harriet Martineau and others to illuminate the presentation of illness and ministration, patient and nurse, in the fiction of Charlotte Brontë, Charles Dickens and George Eliot. She argues that the sickroom functions as an imagined retreat from conflicts in Victorian society, and that fictional representations of illness serve to resolve both social conflict and aesthetic tension. Her concentration on the sickroom scene as a compositional response to insistent formal as well as social problems yields fresh readings of canonical works and approaches to the constituent elements of Victorian realist narrative
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511553592
ER  -