Health and Sickness in the Early American Novel

Social Affection and Eighteenth-Century Medicine

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

Av Maureen Tuthill

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This book is a study of depictions of health and sickness in the early American novel, 1787-1808. These texts reveal a troubling tension between the impulse toward social affection that built cohesion in the nation and the pursuit of self-interest that was considered central to the emerging liberalism of the new Republic.

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Utgivningsdatum2018-06-15
Mått148 x 210 x 23 mm
Vikt352 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SeriePalgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
Antal sidor253
FörlagPalgrave Macmillan
ISBN9781349955671

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Preface.- Acknowledgments.- Introduction.- 1. A “Very Unfeeling World”: The Failure of Social Healing in Rowson’s America.- 2. “Your Health and My Happiness”: Sickness and Health in The Coquette and Female Quixotism.- 3. “The Best Means of Retaining Health”: Self-determined Health and Social Discipline in Early America.- 4. “The Means of Subsistence”: Health, Wealth, and Social Affection in a Yellow Fever World.- 5. The “Learned Doctor”: Tyler’s Literary Endorsement of a Federalist Elite.- 6. “Some Yankee Non-sense about Humanity”: Hiding Away African Health in Early American Fiction.- Epilogue.- Notes.- Bibliography.- Index.-

“Maureen Tuthill’s fascinating book demonstrates how American assumptions about healthcare have their roots in the eighteenth century and, in particular, the two decades following the USA’s founding. … Health and Sickness in the Early American Novel is deeply researched, tightly structured and consistently well argued. … The book makes thought-provoking and sobering reading … .” (Rowland Hughes, The British Society for Literature and Science, bsls.ac.uk, November, 2017)