Health and Sickness in the Early American Novel: Social Affection and Eighteenth-Century Medicine by Tuthill, Maureen

Health and Sickness in the Early American Novel: Social Affection and Eighteenth-Century Medicine (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781137597144)

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Health and Sickness in the Early American Novel: Social Affection and Eighteenth-Century Medicine by Tuthill, Maureen

Health and Sickness in the Early American Novel: Social Affection and Eighteenth-Century Medicine

$54.99

Health and Sickness in the Early American Novel: Social Affection and Eighteenth-Century Medicine

$54.99
Format: Hardcover
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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.-

Author: Maureen Tuthill
ISBN-10: 1137597143
ISBN-13: 9781137597144
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 10/05/2016
Pages: 253
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.97lbs
Size: 8.63h x 6.10w x 0.77d
By Maureen Tuthill
By Maureen Tuthill
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Maureen Tuthill is Associate Professor of English and A.P. Green Endowed Fellow in English at Westminster College, Fulton, Missouri, USA. Her articles and reviews have appeared in Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers, Literature of the Early American Republic, and Early American Literature.

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