The Sickroom in Victorian Fiction: The Art of Being Ill

by Miriam Bailin

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521036402
• ISBN13: 9780521036405
• Release Date: May 2007
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 180 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"