Avril Tynan is an Academy Research Fellow in the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of Turku. She has previously held research fellowships at the Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut Essen (KWI) and the Turku Institute for Advanced Studies, as well as teaching positions at Royal Holloway, University of London. She co-edited Trauma, Ethics, Hermeneutics: Essays in Honour of Colin Davis (with Professor Helena Duffy, 2024) and is co-editor of Storyworlds: A Journal of Narrative Studies.

• List of FiguresAcknowledgementsSeries Editor’s Preface1. After Illness2. Narratives of Illness, Narratives of Recovery: Features, Forms and Functions3. More Than Twelve Steps in Literature and Film: Amy Liptrot’s The Outrun and ‘The Outrun’4. Beginning Again: Writing Eating Disorder Recovery in Emma Woolf’s An Apple a Day: A Memoir of Love and Recovery from Anorexia5. No Going Back: Suleika Jaouad’s Journey of Recovery in Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted6. Disability Narrative as Recovery Narrative: Graphic Medicine and Crip Time in Vivian Chong and Georgia Webber’s Dancing After TEN: A Graphic Memoir7. Recovery-to-Come: Billy-Ray Belcourt’s Utopia in A History of My Brief Body BibliographyIndex

Critical Narratives of Recovery is bound to become a central reference in Medical Humanities scholarship. It is not only eloquently written, it also makes a critical intervention by complicating the meaning of recovery and by examining illness narratives that foreground the drama of recovery rather than the drama of illness.

Avril Tynan is an Academy Research Fellow in the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of Turku. She has previously held research fellowships at the Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut Essen (KWI) and the Turku Institute for Advanced Studies, as well as teaching positions at Royal Holloway, University of London. She co-edited Trauma, Ethics, Hermeneutics: Essays in Honour of Colin Davis (with Professor Helena Duffy, 2024) and is co-editor of Storyworlds: A Journal of Narrative Studies.

• List of FiguresAcknowledgementsSeries Editor’s Preface1. After Illness2. Narratives of Illness, Narratives of Recovery: Features, Forms and Functions3. More Than Twelve Steps in Literature and Film: Amy Liptrot’s The Outrun and ‘The Outrun’4. Beginning Again: Writing Eating Disorder Recovery in Emma Woolf’s An Apple a Day: A Memoir of Love and Recovery from Anorexia5. No Going Back: Suleika Jaouad’s Journey of Recovery in Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted6. Disability Narrative as Recovery Narrative: Graphic Medicine and Crip Time in Vivian Chong and Georgia Webber’s Dancing After TEN: A Graphic Memoir7. Recovery-to-Come: Billy-Ray Belcourt’s Utopia in A History of My Brief Body BibliographyIndex

Critical Narratives of Recovery is bound to become a central reference in Medical Humanities scholarship. It is not only eloquently written, it also makes a critical intervention by complicating the meaning of recovery and by examining illness narratives that foreground the drama of recovery rather than the drama of illness.

Avril Tynan is an Academy Research Fellow in the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of Turku. She has previously held research fellowships at the Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut Essen (KWI) and the Turku Institute for Advanced Studies, as well as teaching positions at Royal Holloway, University of London. She co-edited Trauma, Ethics, Hermeneutics: Essays in Honour of Colin Davis (with Professor Helena Duffy, 2024) and is co-editor of Storyworlds: A Journal of Narrative Studies.

• List of FiguresAcknowledgementsSeries Editor’s Preface1. After Illness2. Narratives of Illness, Narratives of Recovery: Features, Forms and Functions3. More Than Twelve Steps in Literature and Film: Amy Liptrot’s The Outrun and ‘The Outrun’4. Beginning Again: Writing Eating Disorder Recovery in Emma Woolf’s An Apple a Day: A Memoir of Love and Recovery from Anorexia5. No Going Back: Suleika Jaouad’s Journey of Recovery in Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted6. Disability Narrative as Recovery Narrative: Graphic Medicine and Crip Time in Vivian Chong and Georgia Webber’s Dancing After TEN: A Graphic Memoir7. Recovery-to-Come: Billy-Ray Belcourt’s Utopia in A History of My Brief Body BibliographyIndex

Critical Narratives of Recovery is bound to become a central reference in Medical Humanities scholarship. It is not only eloquently written, it also makes a critical intervention by complicating the meaning of recovery and by examining illness narratives that foreground the drama of recovery rather than the drama of illness.