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020			_a9780511553592 (ebook)
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050	0	0	_aPR878.S5 _bB35 1994
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100	1		_aBailin, Miriam, _eauthor.
245	1	4	_aThe sickroom in Victorian fiction : _bthe art of being ill / _cMiriam Bailin.
264		1	_aCambridge : _bCambridge University Press, _c1994.
300			_a1 online resource (ix, 169 pages) : _bdigital, PDF file(s).
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
490	1		_aCambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; _v1
500			_aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
505	0		_aLife in the sickroom -- Charlotte Brontë: "varieties of pain" -- Charles Dickens: "impossible existences" -- Geroge Eliot: "separateness and communication" -- Afterword.
520			_aIn 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.
600	1	0	_aBrontë, Charlotte, _d1816-1855 _xCharacters _xSick.
600	1	0	_aDickens, Charles, _d1812-1870 _xCharacters _xSick.
600	1	0	_aEliot, George, _d1819-1880 _xCharacters _xSick.
650		0	_aEnglish fiction _y19th century _xHistory and criticism.
650		0	_aCare of the sick in literature.
650		0	_aMedicine in literature.
650		0	_aLiterature and medicine _zGreat Britain _xHistory _y19th century.
650		0	_aMedical fiction _xHistory and criticism.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _z9780521445269
830		0	_aCambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; _v1.
856	4	0	_uhttps://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511553592
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